Chapter 18: The Heart Flashcards
What are the 2 major divsions of the circulatory system?
Pulmonary and systemic circuit
The pulmonary circuit is on the ____ side of the heart while the systemic circuit is on the ____ side.
Right
Left
What circuit carries blood to lungs for gas exchange and back to the heart?
Pulmonary
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What does the systemuc circuit do?
Supplies oxygenated blood to all tissues of the body and returns it to the heart.
Fully oxygenated blood arrives from ____ via ______
Lungs
pulmonary veins
What part of the body sends blood to all organs of the body?
The aorta
What sends blood to the lungs?
The pulmonary trunk
The heart is located in the ____, between the ______
Mediastinum, lungs
What is the pericardium?
Double-walled sac that encloses the heart, allowing the heart to beat without friction, providing room to expand and resisting excessive expansion
The heart is anchored to the ____ inferiorly and to the ____ anteriorly.
Diaphraghm and sternum
What is the difference between the parietal and visceral pericardium?
The parietal is an outer tough fiborous layer of connective tissue while the visceral is the inner, thin smooth serous membrane that covers the heart
What can the visceral pericardium also be called?
Epicardium
How much pericardial fluid is in the pericardial cavity?
5 to 30 mL
____ is the painful inflammation of membranes
Pericarditis
What are the 3 layers of the heart?
Epicardium, myocardium and the endocardium
Describe the epicardium (AS A LAYER OF THE HEART)
Outer layer, serous membrane that covers the heart
What is the function of the myocardium?
Provides structural support and attachment for cardiac muscle
Describe the endocardium
Inner layer that lines the heart
What are the 4 heart chambers?
Right and left atria and right and left ventricles
The atrias is ____ while the ventricles are ______.
Superior and inferior
What does the atria do?
Receives blood returning to the heart
What do the ventricles do?
Pump blood into the arteries
What does the atrioventricular (coronary) sulus grooves seperate?
The atria, ventricles
What do the anterior and posterior interventricular sulci grooves seperate?
Ventricles
____ is the wall that seperates atria
Interatrial septum
____ are the internal ridges of myocardium in right atrium and both auricles
Pectinate muscles
____ the muscular wall that seperates ventricles
Interventricular septum
____ is the internal ridges in both ventricles
Trabeculae carnae
What may the trabeculae carneae prevent?
May prevent ventricle walls from sticking together after contraction
What do heart valves do?
They prevent the backflow of blood, ensuring a one-way flow of blood through the heart
What valve controls the blood flow between atrias and ventricles?
Atrioventicular valve
The right AV valve has ____ cusps, so it’s called _____-
3
tricuspid valve
The left AV has ____ cusps, so its called _____
2, mitral valve, used to be bicuspid
What does the chordae tendinae prevent?
It prevents AV valves from flipping or bulging into atria when ventricles contract
Each papillary muscle has ____ attachments to the heart floor.
2 - 3
The ____ valve controls the flow into the great arteries, and open and close because of blood flow and pressure
Semilunar
What are the 2 types of semilunar valves?
Pulmonary and aortic
What causes mitral valve prolapse?
When one or both mitral valve cusps bulge into atria during ventricular contraction
What are some symptoms of mitral valve prolapse?
Chest pain and shortness of breath
When ventricles relax?
When the pressure drops inside the ventricles and AV valves open
When do ventricles contract?
When pressure rises inside the ventricles and AV valves close
____ % of blood pumped by the heart is pumped to the heart itself through the coronary circulation to sustain its strenous workload
5
When does coronary flow peak?
During ventricular relaxation