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17 Cards in this Set
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Pulmonary circuit |
Blood sent to the lungs from right side of the heart |
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Systemic circuit |
Blood sent to the .... from left side of the heart |
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Myocardium |
The cardiac muscle layer of the heart wall |
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Atria |
One of the four heart chambers |
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Ventricle |
One of the four heart chambers, main pumping chambers of heart |
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Vene Cava |
Major veins that return blood from systemic circuit to right heart |
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Pulmonary veins |
Blood vessel they carry blood from lung to left side of heart |
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Pulmonary artery |
Blood vessel that carries blood from right side of heart to lung |
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Aorta |
Blood vessel that carries blood from the left side of heart to systemic circulation |
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Atrioventricular valves |
Heart valves located between atria and ventricle (tricuspid and mitral valves) |
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Semilunar valves |
Heart valves located between ventricles and major arteries |
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Tricuspid valve |
Heart valve located between right atria and ventricle |
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Mitral valve |
Heart valve located between atria and ventricle |
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Chordae tendineae |
Connective tissue connecting end of AV valves to papillary muscles |
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Intercalated disc |
Highly visible junctional complex of cardiac muscle cells |
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Pacemaker potential |
Spontaneous depolarization of cardiac muscle cells that cause heart contraction |
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Sinoatrial node |
Site of main pacemaker potential |
