Physiology Cardiovascular (15%) Flashcards
What is the pacemaker of the heart
SA node
SA node is innervated by what nerve
Vagus
The SA node can help prevent
tetany
What is the closing of the mitral and tricusid vavle called
S1
What is the closign of the aortic and pulmonary valves called
S2
Which murmur is the most clicinly significant
Diastolic
What is the force exerted by fluid agaisnt a wall
Hydrostatic
What is created by plasma proteins unable to move throough the capillary membrane
Osmotic Pressure
This is the stroke voulume increasing in respone of blood filling the heart
Frank-Starlings law
This is when the muscle will increasein size when used
Davis’s law
This is the inversly porpotional relationship between absoulte pressure and volumne of a gas`
Boyles law
Megakaryocytes are
precursor platelets
Where are RBC made in Embryo, fetus, Adult
Embryo; yolk sac
Fetus: Liver, Spleen, lymph, Bpne marrow
Adults: Membranous bone marrow
What is the process of geneisis of RBC
Hemocytoblast - Normoblast- Reticuloblast- Erythrocyte "HNRE"
What stimulates the production of RBC
Erythroprotein (made in kidney)