Heart Vocab Notes

Question 1

Artificial pacemaker

Answer 1

battery-powered device that prevents the heart from beating too slowly

Question 2

Atrial fibrillation

Answer 2

Type of arrhythmia/abnormal heart beat

Question 3

Autonomic nervous system

Answer 3

responsible for controlling the bodily functions like breathing

Question 4

AV node

Answer 4

The electrical relay station between the upper+lower chamber of the heart

Question 5

Bradycardia

Answer 5

Slow heart rate

Question 6

Bundle branches

Answer 6

Part of the electrical system of the heart rate

Question 7

Bundle of His

Answer 7

Elongated segment connecting the AV node left + right bundle branches of the septal branch

Question 8

Ectopic focus

Answer 8

Area that begins to release electrical stimuli outside the normal different heart conditions

Question 9

Electrocardiogram

Answer 9

records the electrical signal from the heart to check for different hear conditions

Question 10

Normal sinus rhythm

Answer 10

Rhythm that orginates from sinus nude + describes the characteristics rhythm of the healthy human heart

Question 11

Purkinje fibers

Answer 11

Any of the specialized cardiac muscle fibers forming a network in the ventricular walls that conduct electric impulses for the contractions of the ventricles

Question 12

Sinoatrial nude

Answer 12

Generates on electrical signals that causes the upper heart + chambers(atrial) to contract

Question 13

Tachycardia

Answer 13

Heart rate over 100 beats a minute

Question 14

Ventricular fibrillation

Answer 14

irregular heart rhythm(arrhythmia) where the lower heart chambers controut in a very rapid + uncoordinated manner