Week 3 The Heart

Question 0

Cardiovascular means?

Answer 0

Pertaining to the heart and blood vessels

Question 1

The cardiovascular system does what?

Answer 1

Delivers oxygen, nutrients, and hormones to various tissues, transports waste.

Question 2

The heart is?

Answer 2

A hollow, muscular organ that provides the power to move blood through the body

Question 3

The heart is located?

Answer 3

In the mediastinum

Question 4

The pericardium is?

Answer 4

Double-walled membrane surrounding the heart

Question 5

What are the layers of the heart?

Answer 5

Fibrous layer, serous layer: parietal and visceral

Question 6

Pericardial space is?

Answer 6

Space between the two serous layers of the pericardium

Question 7

Pericardial fluid does what?

Answer 7

Prevents friction between the heart and the pericardium

Question 8

Epicardium is?

Answer 8

External layer of heart

Question 9

Myocardium is

Answer 9

Middle layer of heart

Question 10

Endocardium?

Answer 10

Inner layer of heart

Question 11

Coronary vessels are?

Answer 11

Blood vessels that deliver blood to and take blood away from the hearts tissues

Question 12

Coronary occlusions are.

Answer 12

Blockage of the coronary vessels and can lead to ischemia

Question 13

Ischemia is?

Answer 13

Deficiency in the blood supply to an area

Question 14

What is infarct?

Answer 14

Necrosis due to ischemia

Question 15

What are the superior chambers of the heart and what is the short form?

Answer 15

Atria, atri/o

Question 16

What are the inferior chambers of the heart and short form?

Answer 16

Ventricles, ventricul/o

Question 17

A septum is?

Answer 17

Separating wall

Question 18

What does the aventricular septum do?

Answer 18

Separates the right and left chambers of the heart

Question 19

The apex is?

Answer 19

The tip of the heart

Question 20

What is a valve?

Answer 20

Membranous fold

Question 21

What is the short form of valve?

Answer 21

Valv/o and valvu/o

Question 22

What are the semilunar valves?

Answer 22

Pulmonary and aortic

Question 23

What is the heart beat?

Answer 23

Rate and regularity of the heart rhythm

Question 24

What I the heart beat influenced by?

Answer 24

Electronic impulses from nerves in the myocardium

Question 25

What is cardiac output?

Answer 25

Volume of blood pumped by the heart overtime

Question 26

Where is the SA node located and what does it do?

Answer 26

In the right atrial wall and initiates the heart rhythm also called the pacemaker

Question 27

Where is the AV node and what does it do?

Answer 27

In the interatrial septum and receives the impulse from the SA node

Question 28

Where is the bundles of his?

Answer 28

In the inerventricular septum and continues through the ventricles as the purkinjie fibers

Question 29

What do the purkinjie fibers do?

Answer 29

Carry impulses through ventricular muscle, causing them to contract

Question 30

Systole is?

Answer 30

Contraction

Question 31

Diastole is?

Answer 31

Relaxation

Question 32

Arrhythmia or dysrhythmia is?

Answer 32

Abnormal heart beat

Question 33

Bradycardia is?

Answer 33

Abnormally slow heart beat

Question 34

Tachycardia is?

Answer 34

Abnormally fast heart beat

Question 35

What is electrocardiography?

Answer 35

Process of recording the electrical activity of the heart

Question 36

What is an electrocardiogram? What is the abbreviation?

Answer 36

Record of the electrical activity of the myocardium. ECG or EKG

Question 37

What does the p wave do?

Answer 37

Depolarization of the atria

Question 38

What does the QRS complex do?

Answer 38

Depolarization of the ventricles

Question 39

What does the t wave do?

Answer 39

Repolarization of the ventricles

Question 40

What sound is heard when auscultating the heart?

Answer 40

Lub, dub

Question 41

Lub is?

Answer 41

Closing of the atrioventricular valves

Question 42

Dub is?

Answer 42

Closing of the semilunar valves

Question 43

What is a murmur?

Answer 43

Abnormal sound associated with turbulent blood flow

Question 44

What are blood vessels? What are the short forms?

Answer 44

Tubular structures through which blood flows. Angi/o and vas/o

Question 45

What is the lumen?

Answer 45

Opening in these vessels through which blood flows

Question 46

Constriction is?

Answer 46

Narrowing of the lumen

Question 47

Dilation is?

Answer 47

Widening of the lumen

Question 48

Arteries are? Short form?

Answer 48

Vessels that carry blood away from the heart. Ateri/o

Question 49

Arterioles are?

Answer 49

Smaller branches of arteries

Question 50

Veins are? Short form?

Answer 50

Vessels that carry blood to the heart. Ven/o and phleb/o

Question 51

Blood pressure is? Combining form?

Answer 51

Tension exerted by blood on the arterial walls, tensi/o

Question 52

What is a pulse?

Answer 52

Rhythmic expansion and contraction of an artery produced by pressure

Question 53

How is blood pressure measured?

Answer 53

By a sphygmomanometer

Question 54

Tourniquet?

Answer 54

Instrument to stop blood flow

Question 55

Cardiomegaly

Answer 55

Enlargement of the heart

Question 56

Cardiomyopathy?

Answer 56

Disease of the heart tissue

Question 57

CHF?

Answer 57

Congestive heart failure

Question 58

Dirofilariosis

Answer 58

Heart work infestation

Question 59

Embolus

Answer 59

Foreign thing in circulation

Question 60

Embolism

Answer 60

Blockage from foreign thing

Question 61

Hematoma

Answer 61

Collection of blood in an area

Question 62

Occlusion

Answer 62

Any blockage

Question 63

PDA

Answer 63

Patent ductus arteriosus

Question 64

Shock

Answer 64

Oxygen not getting to tissues

Question 65

Thrombus

Answer 65

Clot

Question 66

Thrombosis

Answer 66

Condition of having a clot

Question 67

Defibrillation

Answer 67

Use of electric shock to start or restore heart rhythm

Question 68

Hemostasis

Answer 68

Stopping of blood (like with hemostats or clotting)

Question 69

Transfusion

Answer 69

Blood or blood by products given to a patient from a donor