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Cardiovascular System Flashcards

1
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What are the layers of the heart?

A
  • Epicardium
  • Myocardium
  • Endocardium
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2
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What is the bulk layer called?

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The myocardium

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3
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What does the lining of the blood vessels consist of?

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Endocardium

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4
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How many pulmonary veins are there? Where do they transport blood?

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  • 4 veins
  • left atrium
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5
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The right atrium receives blood from (blank.)

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  • superior/inferior vena cava
  • coronary sinus
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6
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The left atrium receives blood from (blank.)

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  • the pulmonary veins
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7
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The right ventricle pumps blood into?

A

pulmonary trunk

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8
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The left ventricle pumps blood into?

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aorta

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9
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What are papillary muscles responsible for?

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Keeping the valve flap in a closed position

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10
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What do SL valves do? What is the medical term?

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  • prevent backflow into ventricles in repolarization
  • semilunar valve
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What are the two semilunar valves?

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  • aortic semilunar valve
  • pulmonary semilunar valve
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12
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What is the pathway of blood through the heart?

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Cycle: SVC/IVC —> Right Atrium —> Tricuspid Valve —> Right Ventricle —> Pulmonary Semilunar Valve —> Pulmonary Trunk —> Lungs —> Heart —> Pulmonary veins —> Left Atrium —> Bicuspid Valve —> Left Ventricle —> Aortic Semilunar Valve —> Aorta —> Body

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13
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How does the heart tissue receive blood?

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Coronary circulation

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14
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How much bloody supply does the heart require?

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1/20th of the blood in the body

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15
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When is the blood delivered to the heart tissue?

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When the heart is releaxed.

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16
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What are the appearance, length, and additional characteristics of cardiac muscles?

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  • striated
  • short
  • fat
  • branched
  • interconnected
  • 1 central nuclei
17
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What do intercalated discs do?

A

Anchor cardiac cells together

18
Q

What are desmosomes?

A

Keep cells stuck together.

19
Q

What are gap junctions?

A

allow ions to pass from cell to cell

20
Q

What is the heartbeat a function of?

A
  • gap junctions
  • intrinsic cardiac conduction system
21
Q

What is involved in the process of sequence of excitation?

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  • SA node
  • AV node
  • AV bundle
  • R/L Bundle Branches
  • Purkijnje fibers
22
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What is an EKG?

A

composite of all action potential

23
Q

What is the lub dub sound associated with?

A

associated with the closing of heart valves

24
Q

What is systole? What does it indicate?

A
  • contraction
  • closure of AV valve
25
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What is diastole? What does it indicate?

A
  • relaxation
  • closure of the SL valve
26
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What is the cardiac cycle?

A

blood flow through heart during one complete heartbeat

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