Supporting Systems Flashcards
How many organ systems does the human body have?
11
What is the primary function of the circulatory system?
To facilitate the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide, thereby transporting oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues and moving carbon dioxide from the tissues to the lungs to be excreted. In addition, the circulatory system is also responsible for the transport of nutrients from the digestive system to body tissues and serves as a clearing house for the biochemical waste products resulting from physical activity, such as weight training or aerobic exercise.
What does the circulatory systme consist of?
The heart, arteries, veins, capillaries, and blood.
What are the blood vessels carrying oxygenated blood away from the heart and to the tissues?
Arteries
What are the blood vessels carrying blood toward the heart to remove waste and pick up more oxygen?
Veins
What are the fine-branching blood vessels forming a network between the arterioles and venules, where transport of nutrients and oxygen or carbon dioxide occurs on a microscopic scale?
Capillaries
What are the smaller branches of the arteries leading to the capillaries?
Arterioles
What are the small branches of the veins gathering blood from the capillaries?
Venules
Label the following diagram of the blood vessels.
What are the two upper cavities of the heart passing blood to the ventricles?
Atria (singular is atrium)
What are the two lower cavities of the heart passing blood to the body or to the lungs?
Ventricles
What is the name of the blood vessels that move blood from the heart to the lungs?
Pulmonary arteries
What is the name of the blood vessels returning oxygenated blood to the heart from the lungs?
Pulmonary veins
What is the name of the main artery in the body that supplies oxygenated blood to the circulatory system?
Aorta
What is pulmonary circulation?
The blood flow between the heart and the lungs.
What is systemic circulation?
The blood flow between the heart and the rest of the body.
Label the following diagram.
Label the following diagram.
What is the blood vessel that moves blood from the upper body and head to the heart?
Superior vena cava
That is the blood vessel that moves blood from the lower body to the heart?
Inferior vena cava
What is the name for all of the chemical processes that occur in the body to support life including converting food into energy?
Metabolism
What are atrioventricular (AV) valves?
Valves between the atria and ventricles preventing the backward flow of blood during cardiac contractions.
Describe the order in which blood enters and passes through the heart.
- The right atrium receives deoxygenated blood from the body’s tissues.
- Blood passes through the tricuspid (AV valve) to the right ventricle.
- The right ventricle pumps blood into the pulmonary artery.
- Blood is carried by the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation.
- Oxegenated blood returns by way of the pulmonary vein to the left atrium.
- Blood passes through the bicuspid (mitral) valve to the left ventricle.
- The left ventricle ejects blood through the aortic (semilunar) valve into the aorta for transport in the systemic circuit.
TEST TIP!
The heart anatomy can be confusing. Use these tips to remember how blood flows through the heart:
The atrium (plural: atria) receives blood; ventricles pump it out.
Blood leaving the right ventricle will be right back—it moves to the lungs for oxygen before returning to the heart.
Blood leaving the left ventricle has left—it is headed out to the body.
“Tri before you bi”—the tricuspid valve is on the right side of the heart and the bicuspid valve is on the left side. Blood passes through the “tri” before the “bi”—right side, then left.
What is the action of the heart from the start of one heartbeat to the beginning of the next?
Cardiac cycle
What is the heartbeat phase where muscle contraction moves blood from the heart chambers to the arteries?
Systole
What is the heartbeat phase where the cardiac muscle relaxes and the heart chambers fill with blood?
Diastole
What is the sinoatiral (SA) node?
The pacemaker of the heart that generates the first electrical signal of a heartbeat and stimulates the atria to contract.
What is the atrioventricular (AV) node?
The nerve node between the right atrium and right ventricle that propagates the electrical signal from the SA note to more distal heart nerves that cause ventricular contraction.
Label the following diagram of the nerves of the heart.
Define stroke volume.
The amount of blood pumped by the left ventricle of the heart in one contraction.