Cardiovascular System

Question 1

Artioventric bundle

Answer 1

Aka bundle of his

Question 2

Sinoatrial Node

Answer 2

Pace maker of the heart ;A Node

Question 3

Pulmonary circulation

Answer 3

Deoxygenated blood is pumped from the right side of the heart to the lungs. Gas is a exchanged, and oxygenated blood returns to the heart.

Question 4

Systemic Circulation

Answer 4

Oxygenated blood is pumped from the left side of the heart and moves through the body

Question 5

Hepatic portal Curculation

Answer 5

Veins from the spleen, gallbladder pancreas, stomach, and intestines dump blood from the hepatic portal vein which takes blood to the liver.

Question 6

Septum

Answer 6

Thick, muscular wall that divides the heart into left and right halves

Question 7

Lower chambers of the heart

Answer 7

Ventricles

Question 8

Polarized State

Answer 8

Before the Impulse hits the cells, they are in a polarized stat think of this as the waiting stage

Question 9

Atrial Flutter

Answer 9

Rapid regular Rhythm

Question 10

Fetal Circulation

Answer 10

The arteries carry fetal blood to the placenta

Question 11

Stroke volume

Answer 11

Is the amount of blood that is pushed out of the left ventricle compared with the total volume of blood that filled the ventricle

Question 12

Systole

Answer 12

Occurs when the heart is contracting

Question 13

Tachycardia

Answer 13

A pulse that is greater than 100 bpm

Question 14

Cardiogenic

Answer 14

Inability of the damaged heart to pump blood affectively caused by a heart attack, arrhythmias, pulmonary embolism, or congestive heart failure

Question 15

Vena Cava

Answer 15

Superior and the inferior vena cava, bring deoxygenated blood from the body to the right heart.

Question 16

Bundle of his

Answer 16

AV Bundle impulse leaves, the AV node it moves to the bundle of His

Question 17

Purkinje fibers

Answer 17

Transmit the impulse quickly, and effectively to the ventricular myocardial cells this cause ventricular chambers to contract

Question 18

Pericardium

Answer 18

Covers the heart like a sac

Question 19

Thrombophlebitis

Answer 19

Occurs when a thrombus forms in a vein deep in the body, (blood clot)

Question 20

Cardiac catheterization

Answer 20

Catheter into the heart under fluoroscopic guidance to collect diagnostic information about structures in the heart, coronary arteries and great vessels

Question 21

Lub

Answer 21

Occurs when the AV closes and the ventricles contract

Question 22

Stenosis

Answer 22

Occurs when the heart valve flaps are stiff or fused together, thus narrowing the valve

Question 23

Mitral Regurgitation

Question 24

Mitral valve prolapse

Answer 24

Occurs when one or both cusps of the mitral valve protrude back into the left atrium during ventricular systole

Question 25

Atheroma (aneurysm)

Answer 25

Bulging in the artery wall that can burst causing bleeding, and possible death of the blood vessel.

Question 26

Cardiomegaly

Answer 26

Enlarged heart

Question 27

Semilunar valves

Answer 27

SL valves are found between the ventricles and after leading out of the heart

Question 28

Atheroma

Answer 28

Mass of fat on the walls of the artery