Week 7 Flashcards
The cardiovascular system
Transports nutrients and oxygen
While carbon dioxide and waste products are removed
Pulmonary circulation
From the heart to the lungs and back
Systemic circulation
From the heart to the body tissue and back
Arteries
Carry blood away from the heart
Have thicker walls
Veins
Take blood back to the heart
Thinner walls and valves
Varicose veins
Standing too long so the valves in your veins stop working
Blood flow moves up and down
Top of the heart is called
The base
Bottom of the heart is called
Apex
Fibrous pericardium and what’s inside it
Tough membrane that surrounds the heart
Inside is the is the pericardial cavity filled with fluid
Superior vena cava
Brings blood back from the head, neck, chest, and upper extremities
Inferior vena cava
Returns the blood from the truck, organs, abdomen, pevic region, and lower extremities
Atria
Top two chamber of the heart
Supplying oxygenated blood to the circulatory system
Ventricles
Bottom two chambers of the heart
Tricuspid valve
Blood collects in right atrium, this valve opens to allow blood to flow into the right ventricle
Has three cusps or folds
The septum
Walls that separates the left and right side of the heart
Pulmonary veins
How newly oxygenated blood returns to the heart
Bicuspid (mitral) valve
How Blood passes into the left ventricle
Aortic semilunar valve
Blood passes through from the left ventricle to the aorta
Coronary arteries
On the surface of the heart
Divert blood from the aorta
SA node
Peacemaker of the heart