Heart Chambers Flashcards
The heart has 4 chambers, including 2 ________, and 2 _________.
ATRIA
+
VENTRICLES
The _________ are the 2 superior chambers of the heart.
ATRIA
The atria receive blood from blood vessels (veins) __________ to the heart.
RETURNING
The __________ are the 2 inferior chambers of the heart.
VENTRICLES
The ventricles receive blood from the atria and eject it out into which form of blood vessel?
ARTERIES
What is the name of the wall which divides the 2 atria?
INTERATRIAL SEPTUM
What is the name of the wall which divides the 2 ventricles?
INTERVENTRICULAR SEPTUM
Veins carry blood __________ the heart.
TOWARD
Arteries carry blood __________ the heart
AWAY FROM
Name the type of blood vessel which carries blood to the heart?
VEINS
Name the type of blood vessel which carries blood away from the heart?
ARTERIES
The right atrium receives blood from which 3 veins?
SUPERIOR VENA CAVA \+ INFERIOR VENA CAVA \+ CORONARY SINUS
What is the name of the valve through which blood passes from the right atrium into the right ventricle?
RIGHT ATRIOVENTRICULAR (AV) VALVE
aka
TRICUSPID VALVE
The right ventricle receives blood from where?
RIGHT ATRIUM
What is the name of the tendon-like cords connected to the cusps of the right A-V valve?
CHORDAE TENDINAE
Chordae tendinae are anchored to the ventricular wall by ___________ muscles.
PAPILLARY muscles
Blood is ejected from the right ventricle through which valve into the pulmonary trunk?
PULMONARY SEMILUNAR VALVE
The pulmonary trunk divides the right and left pulmonary ___________.
ARTERIES
The left atrium receives blood from the 4 ___________ veins.
PULMONARY
What is the name of the valve through which blood passes from the left atrium into the left ventricle?
LEFT ATRIOVENTRICULAR (AV) VALVE aka BICUSPID VALVE aka MITRAL VALVE
The cusps of the left A-V valve are connected to ___________ ___________ which are anchored to the ventricular wall by papillary muscles.
CHORDAE TENDINAE
Blood is ejected from the left ventricle through which valve into the aorta?
AORTIC SEMILUNAR VALVE
Some of the blood from the aorta flows into the coronary arteries which supply the _________ with oxygen-rich blood.
HEART
The right ventricle sends blood to the ________.
LUNGS
The left ventricle sends blood to the ________.
BODY
What is the name of the muscles anchoring the right and left A-V valves?
CHORDAE TENDINAE
How many pulmonary veins go into the left atrium?
4
Superior vena cava, inferior vena cava, and coronary sinus, are the name of the three veins entering which atrium?
RIGHT ATRIUM
Oxygen rich blood is found in the ________ atrium and ________ ventricle.
LEFT
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LEFT
Name the thickest chamber of the heart, which is so because it needs strength to pump to the head and toes?
LEFT VENTRICLE
