Cardiovascular System Lab Quiz

Question 1

Where is the heart located?

Answer 1

In the thoracic cavity of the mediastinum

Question 2

Layers of the heart (outside –> in)

Answer 2

• Fibrous pericardium
• Parietal pericardium
• Visceral pericardium (aka epicardium)
• Myocardium:

Question 3

Fibrous pericardium

Answer 3

connective tissue sac attached to the roots of

the great vessels

Question 4

Parietal pericardium

Answer 4

serous membrane that lines the inner surface of

the fibrous pericardium

Question 5

Pericardial cavity

Answer 5

space between parietal and visceral pericardium

Question 6

Visceral pericardium (aka epicardium)

Answer 6

serous membrane that lines

the outer surface of the heart

Question 7

What is the relationship between parietal and visceral pericardium?

Answer 7

They are continous

Question 8

Myocardium

Answer 8

the heart muscle (cardiac cells)

Question 9

What is unique about the myocardium?

Answer 9

Authorhythmic

Question 10

Endocardium

Answer 10

endothelial tissue lining heart chambers. It is continuous

with endothelium lining the blood vessels.

Question 11

Cranial and Caudal Vena Cava

Answer 11

Large veins that return blood from the body to the heart

Question 12

Cranial

Answer 12

blood from the head, neck, and forelimbs

Question 13

Caudal

Answer 13

blood from lower parts of the body

Question 14

Pulmonary Veins

Answer 14

– Receive oxygenated blood from the lungs and bring it back to the
heart

Question 15

Pulmonary Arteries

Answer 15

– Branch into right and left pulmonary arteries that bring deoxygenated
blood from the heart to the lungs

• Also opposite!

Question 16

Aorta

Answer 16

– Oxygen rich blood exits the heart through the aortic arch and is
pumped systemically

Question 17

Diastole vs Systole

Answer 17

Question 18

What is the 1st stop of blood into the heart?

Answer 18

Atria

Question 19

What do the ventricles do?

Answer 19

Push blood out to the lungs or body

Question 20

Atrioventricular Valves

Answer 20

–Tricuspid (right AV)

–Bicuspid (mitral, left AV)

Question 21

How to atrioventricular valves open?

Answer 21

• Chordae tendineae

* Papillary muscles

Question 22

Semilunar Valves

Answer 22

–Pulmonary

–Aortic

Question 23

How do semilunar valves open?

Answer 23

• Pressure from ventricles

Question 24

Arteries

Answer 24

arterioles move away from the heart

–Deliver oxygen rich blood to tissues
–Coronary arteries=heart’s blood supply

Question 25

Capillaries

Answer 25

where gas exchange takes place.

–One cell thick-diffusion
–Form connection between arteries and veins

Question 26

Venules

Answer 26

veins moves towards the heart

–Bring oxygen depleted blood back to the heart and lungs
–One way values

Question 27

Erythrocytes

Answer 27

Red Blood Cells

Question 28

How are RBC’s created?

Answer 28

Erythropoiesis in bone marrow

Question 29

Leukocytes

Answer 29

White Blood Cells

Question 30

Types of WBC

Answer 30

Neutrophils, Eosinophils, Basophils, Monocytes, Lymphocytes

Question 31

Thrombocytes

Answer 31

Platlets

Question 32

What are platlets important for?

Answer 32

Clotting factors

Question 33

What is plasma made of?

Answer 33

–90% Water
–Electrolytes, hormones, nutrients, waste, etc.
–Carrier proteins
• Serum

Question 34

brady-

Answer 34

slow

Question 35

tachy-

Answer 35

fast

Question 36

cardi/coron

Answer 36

heart

Question 37

angi/vas

Answer 37

vessel (blood or lymph)

Question 38

pulm/pneum/pnea

Answer 38

lungs/breathing

Question 39

thromb

Answer 39

clot/coagulation

Question 40

ven/phleb

Answer 40

vein

Question 41

-graphy/graph

Answer 41

process of recording/instrument used to record

Question 42

-gram

Answer 42

finished record