endocardium, myocardium, and epicardium

the study of the heart

This inner layer of the heart serves to reduce friction as the blood passes through the heart chamber.

Pertaining to the atrium

Instrument for listening to body sounds such as chest, heart, or intestine.

atria, interatrial septum, interventricular septum, ventricles

Heart activity completely stops

a semilunar valve located between the left ventricle and the aorta. Blood leaves this valve and cannot return to the left ventricle.

Pertaining to the heart

patient placed on a treadmill or a bicycle

Tricuspid valve, pulmonary valve, mitral valve, aortic valve

Inner, heart, inflammation

the upper chamber of the heart, the receiving chambers of the heart. Blood returning to the heart via veins first collects in these chambers

Pertaining to blood vessel

replacement of a diseased or malfunctioning heart with a donors heart

arteries, capillaries, and arteries

Normal heart sounds from blood flowing through the heart

between the heart and lungs, transports deoxygenated blood to the lungs to get oxygen, and then back to the heart

Pertaining to a vein

removal of a diseased heart valve and replacement with an artificial valve

Sinoatrial node, atrioventricular node, bundle of his, bundle branches, purkinje fibers.

Area of tissue in an organ that undergoes necrosis then loss of blood supply

Regulating the heart rate this special tissue within our heart is responsible for conducting an electrical impulse stimulating the different chambers to contract in the correct order.

An arrhythia in which the atria beats to rapidly , but in a regular pattern.

during open heart surgery, the routing of the blood to the heart-lung machine so it can be oxygenated and pumped to the the rest of the body.