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What are shorter, more tightly connected than skeletal muscle; involuntary
Cardiac muscle
What are smaller, superior chambers of the heart; receive blood from veins
Artia
This gathers deoxygenated blood returning to the heart
Right atrium
This gathers oxygenated blood from the lungs
Left atrium
What is the difference from the left and right atrium?
Right -> deoxygenated blood to heart
Left -> oxygenated blood from lungs
What is another word for “Sinoatrial (SA) node”?
“Pacemaker for the heart” . Initiates impulse for heart rate
What are large, inferior chambers of the heart; pump blood out
Ventricles
What pumps deoxygenated blood to lungs?
Right ventricle
What pumps oxygenated blood to the body?
Left ventricle
What do the right ventricle and right atrium have in common?
Both work with deoxygenated blood
What do the left ventricle and left atrium have in common?
Both work with oxygenated blood
What carries blood away from the heart?
Arteries
Transports blood back to the heart is called?
Veins
Neural impulses that sense tension are greater than the impulses that cause muscles to contract
Autogenic inhibition
Simultaneous constraction of one muscle, and relaxation of its antagonist to allow movement
Reciprocal inhibition
