Heart Flashcards
Deoxigenated blood enters the heart through…
Superior- and inferior vena cava
After entering superior- inferior vena cava it flows to…
Right atrium
It enters … when the … open
right ventricle, tricuspid valve
When the … open, the blood leaves the heart through … to the lungs
Semi-lunar valve, pulmonary arteries
Oxigenated blood enters the heart through…
Pulmonary veins
The blood enters the …
Left atrium
When the … open, the blood flows to the …
Bicuspid valve, left ventricle
When the … open, the blood leaves the heart through …
semi-lunar valve, aorta
Blood leaves the heart through … and enters through …
Arteries, veins
Arteries branch into … which divide into a … which joins into … which join to form veins
Arterioles, capillary network, venules
The three stages of the cardiac cycle
- Atrial systole
- Ventricular systole
- Diastole
During the atrial systole the … and the …. which causes the … to open and blood flows into the …
ventricles relax, atriums filled with blood contract, tri- bicuspid valves, ventricles
