The Heart Flashcards
What is the function of the RIGHT side of the heart?
To pump blood to the pulmonary circulation for oxygen onloading (through lungs)
What is the function of the LEFT side of the heart?
To pump oxygenated blood to your tissue (body)
Trace blood flow from body through heart into lungs
1) Vena Cava
2) Right Atrium
3) Tricuspid Valve
4) Right Ventricle
5) Pulmonic Valve
6) Pulmonary Artery
7) Lungs
Trace blood flow from lungs through heart into body
1) Lungs
2) Pulmonary Veins
3) Left Atrium
4) Bicuspid Valce
5) Left Ventricle
6) Aortic Valve
7) Aorta
What vessels drain into the Right Atrium? (3)
1) Superior Vena Cava
2) Inferior Vena Cava
3) Coronary Sinus
The Pulmonary Truck carries blood away from what heart chamber?
RIght Ventricle
Atrioventricular valves ensure one-way blood flow from…
Atria to Ventricles
Which ventricle has thicker walls?
Left ventricle
What is the alternate name for the left atrioventricular valve?
Mitral or Bicuspid
Papillary muscles tense the chordae tendineae just before ventricular….
Relaxation
Blood exits the right ventricle through what valve?
Pulmonary semilunar
Blood flows through both sides of the heart….
SIMULTANEOUSLY
