System

Question 1

Pulmonary circulation

Answer 1

Deoxygenated blood is pumped from the right side of the heart to lungs

Question 2

Systemic circulation

Answer 2

Starts with blood being pumped out of left side of the heart

Question 3

Visceral pericardium

Answer 3

Also called epicardium

Question 4

Atrium

Answer 4

An upper chamber of the heart

Question 5

Ventricle

Answer 5

Lower chamber of the heart

Question 6

Coronary arteries

Answer 6

Vessels supplying blood to the muscle of the heart

Question 7

Pulmonary arteries

Answer 7

Carry deoxygenated blood to the lungs

Question 8

Pulmonary veins

Answer 8

Are only veins that carry oxygenated blood

Question 9

Tricuspid valve

Answer 9

Between the right atrium and right ventricle

Question 10

Bicuspid or mitral valve

Answer 10

Between left atrium and left ventricle

Question 11

Endocardium

Answer 11

Inner lining of heart

Question 12

Sinoatrial nod

Answer 12

Pacemaker of the heart

Question 13

Bundle of his

Answer 13

Equals or same as atrioventricular bundle

Question 14

Semilunar valve or valves

Answer 14

Are located between ventricles and arteries leaving the heart

Question 15

Cardiomegaly

Answer 15

Enlargement of heart muscle

Question 16

Atheroma

Answer 16

Mass of fat or lipids on a artery wall

Question 17

Aneurysm

Answer 17

Localized dilation or bulging of an artery caused by congenital or acquired weakness in a vessel wall

Question 18

Arteriosclerosis

Answer 18

Disease of arterial walls where they become thickened and lose elasticity

Question 19

Thrombophlebitis

Answer 19

Blood clot forms in a deep vein in the body

Question 20

Catheterization

Answer 20

Thin tube is threaded into the heart to get diagnostic info about cardiac structures, coronary arteries and great vessels

Question 21

AV valves closing causes

Answer 21

Lub sound of the heart beat

Question 22

Stenosis

Answer 22

Narrowing of valves caused by stiff or fused together flaps

Question 23

Mitral regurgitation

Answer 23

Back flow from left ventricle to atrium

Question 24

Pericardium

Answer 24

Sack like membrane surrounding heart

Question 25

Mitral valve prolapse

Answer 25

Is protrusion of one or more both cusps into the left atrium during ventricular systole

Question 26

Bundle of his picks

Answer 26

Impulse from the av nod

Question 27

Purkinje fibers

Answer 27

Translate electrical impulse to ventricular myocardial cells causing them to contract

Question 28

Pulmonary artery

Answer 28

Blood vessel branches from right side of heart Carrie’s deoxygenated blood to lungs

Question 29

Vena cava

Answer 29

Blood vessel Carries deoxygenated blood to heart

Question 30

Cardiogenic shock

Answer 30

Heart muscle is damaged and can’t pump blood effectively to the body

Question 31

Tachycardia

Answer 31

Abnormally rapid heart beat more than 100 beats per minute

Question 32

Systole

Answer 32

Contracted phase of heartbeat

Question 33

Stroke volume

Answer 33

Amount of blood pushed out of ventricles compared with total volume of blood that filled ventricles

Question 34

Fetal circulation

Answer 34

Includes placenta

Question 35

Atrial flutter

Answer 35

Rapid regular atrial rhyme

Question 36

Septum

Answer 36

Thick muscular wall divides heart into left and right

Question 37

Lower chambers of heart

Answer 37

Are larger with thick muscular walls, helps pump blood to body and lungs

Question 38

Polarized state

Answer 38

Resting or waiting stage that cardiac cells are in before electric impulse hits

Question 39

Hepatic portal circulation

Answer 39

Allows blood from spleen, gallbladder, pancreas, stomach and intestines to go directly to liver where it is filtered