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37 Cards in this Set
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right atrium |
receives blood from body |
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right ventricle |
pumps blood to lungs |
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left atrium |
receives blood from lungs |
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left ventricle |
pumpls blood out to body |
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difference between arteries and veins |
arteries carry blood away from heart. veins carry blood to heart |
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what causes pulse |
caused by contraction of ventricles which force blood into arteries |
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what blood vessel seems to have largest diameter |
aorta |
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fish's heart |
2 chambers |
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frog's heart |
3 chambers |
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human hearts |
4 chambers |
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pericadium |
surrounded by serous membrane sac or bag holds the heeart |
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epicardium |
outer wall of heart |
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myocardium |
muscular wall in middle with blood vessels and nerves |
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gradocordium |
inner wall attaching blood vessels |
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what is heartbeat |
sinoatriac node (pacemaker) atrioventricular - node conduction cells |
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head oxygen > superiour vena cava stomach oxygen > inferior vena cava all to.... |
right atrium > tricuspid valves |
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tricuspid valves > right ventricle > |
pulmonary seminlunar valves > pulmonary artery |
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pulmonary artery > lung > |
oxygen > pulmonary vein |
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pulmonary vein > left atrium > |
biscuspid valve > left ventricle |
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left ventricle > aortic semilunar valve |
aorta (end of cycle) |
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atherosclerosis |
harden artery block blood by cholesterol |
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hypertension |
high blood pressure |
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heart murmur |
valves leak blood back to chamber |
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whats stroke |
heart attack which stops blood flowing in arteries to half of brain |
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aneurysm |
A ballooning and weakened area in an artery. |
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anyina pectoris |
heart attack, chest pain left arm becomes numb |
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pulmonary edema |
fluid fills up in lungs |
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myocardial infarction |
blood stop flowing in myocardium |
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which chamber has thickest muscle wall |
left ventricle |
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coronary thrombbosis |
blood clot prevented by nitroglycerin balloon agioplasty |
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which blood has valves |
vein |
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which muscle is found inside the artery and vein |
smooth |
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which artery is found in wrist and neck |
wrist-radial neck-carotid |
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which artery goes to lungs |
phrenic artery |
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which vein does to neck arm and liver |
neck- juglar vein arm-brachial liver-heputic portal |
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thickest blood vessel |
artery |
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thinnest blood cell |
capillaries |