HEART | BLOOD VESSELS | BLOOD PRESSURE | CARDIAC CYCLE | MORE HEART ANATOMY |
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What are the superior receiving chambers of the heart?
What are the atria?
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What is tubes that transport blood away from the heart?
What are arteries?
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This is the maximum arterial pressure.
What is systolic pressure?
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The name for the nerve bundle which makes the ventricle contract.
What is AV node?
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This chamber receives blood from the pulmonary veins.
What is the left atrium?
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What are the muscles that control the valves?
What is the papillary muscles?
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Part of the blood that carries oxygen.
What is red blood cells?
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Normal, or average, blood pressure.
What is 120/80?
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The pacemaker of the heart.
What is the sinoatrial node (SA node)?
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The part of the blood that creates blood clots.
What is platelets?
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The specific name of the valve between the right atrium and the right ventricle.
What is the tricuspid valve?
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What is the place where blood releases oxygen while receiving carbon dioxide?
What are capillaries?
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When you are hot, your blood vessels dilate to release more heat. As a result, your blood pressure will?
What is decrease?
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Relaxation of a chamber.
What is diastole?
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Blood flows from the superior and inferior vena cava into this heart structure.
What is the right atrium?
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What is the valve located between the left atrium and left ventricle?
What are the bicuspid valve?
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These blood vessels are very thick to withstand high pressure.
What are arteries?
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The bottom number for blood pressure measures what?
What is diastolic pressure?
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When the ventricles contract, which valves are open?
What is the aortic and pulmonary valves?
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The name of the main blood vessel that supplies blood to the heart muscle.
What is the coronary artery?
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The name of the wall separating the right and left valves of the heart.
What is septum?
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These are the blood vessels that contain valves.
What are veins?
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____ sound - is made by the contraction of the ventricles and the closing of the atrioventricular valves
What is the Lub sound?
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The name for the pumping phase of the heart cycle.
What is systole?
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Blood flows from the left atrium to?
What is through the bicuspid valve to the left ventricle?
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