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A closed system of the heart and blood vessels

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Cardiovascular System

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What allows blood to circulate to all parts of the body.

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Blood vessels

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Functions of the Cardiovascular system:

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Deliver oxygen and nutrients
Remove carbon dioxide and other waste products

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Location of the heart

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Thorax between the lungs
Pointed apex directed toward left hip

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Is the heart about the size of the fist?

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Yes

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It is a double serous membrane

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Pericardium

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A pericardium that is next to heart

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Visceral pericardium

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A pericardium that is outside the layer

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Parietal pericardium

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What fills the space between the layers of pericardium?

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Serous fluid

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Three layers of the heart:

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Epicardium, Myocardium, Endocardium

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Outside layer; This layer is the parietal pericardium; Connective tissue layer

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Epicardium

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Middle layer; Mostly cardiac muscle

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Myocardium

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Inner layer; Endothelium

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Endocardium

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Four chambers of the heart:

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Receiving chambers: Right atrium and Left atrium
Discharging chambers: Right ventricle and Left ventricle

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Allow blood to flow in only one direction

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Valves of the heart

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Four valves of the heart:

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Bicuspid valve (left), Tricuspid valve (right), Pulmonary semilunar valve, Aortic semilunar valve

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A valve between atria and ventricles

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Atrioventricular valves

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A valve between ventricle and artery

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Semilunar valves

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What happens to valve when blood is pumped through?

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It opens

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Valves are held in place by ____________ or ____________

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Chordae tendineae, heart strings

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As the blood returns to the heart and fills the atria, what happens to the atrioventricular valves?

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They are forced to happen

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To prevent backflow of blood to atrium, what happens to the ventricles and atrioventricular valves?

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The ventricles contract
The atrioventricular valves closed

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As the ventricles contract and filled with blood, what happens to the semilunar valves?

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They are forced to open

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When the ventricles relax, what happens to the semilunar valve to prevent backflow of blood from atrium to ventricle?

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They are forced to close

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Associated great vessels of the heart
Aorta, pulmonary arteries, vena cava, pulmonary veins
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This vessel leaves the left ventricle
Aorta
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This vessel leaves the right ventricle
Pulmonary arteries
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This vessel enters the right atrium
Vena cava
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This vessel enters left atrium
Pulmonary veins
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True or False. Blood in the heart chambers does nourish the myocardium.
False
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True or False. The heart has its own nourishing circulatory system.
True
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It carries oxygen-rich blood to the heart muscle (myocardium), providing it with the nutrients and oxygen it needs to function.
Coronary arteries
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It collects deoxygenated blood from the heart muscle and carry it away.
Cardiac veins
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The cardiac veins empty the deoxygenated blood into a large vein called the ___________, which empties the blood into the right atrium.
Coronary sinus
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What are the parts of the nourishing circulatory system of the heart?
Coronary arteries, Cardiac veins, Coronary sinus
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Heart muscle cells contract, without nerve impulses, in a regular, continuous way.
Intrinsic conduction system (nodal system)
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Special tissues that are involve in the nodal system
Sinoatrial node Atrioventricular node Atrioventricular bundle Bundle branches Purkinje fibers
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It is the pacemaker, which also initiates the contraction of the heart under the nodal system.
Sinoatrial node
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SA Node generates the impulse → 2. AV Node delays the impulse → 3. AV Bundle sends the impulse to the bundle branches → 4. Bundle Branches carry the impulse down to the Purkinje fibers → 5. Purkinje Fibers spread the impulse to the ventricles, causing contraction.
Heart Contraction (study figure 11.5)
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Systole means __________
Contraction
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Diastole means ____________
Relaxation
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Events of one complete heart beat
Cardiac Cycle
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Blood flows into ventricles
Mid-to-late diastole
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Blood pressure builds before ventricle contracts, pushing out blood
Ventricular systole
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Atria finish refilling, ventricular pressure is low
Early diastole
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Amount of blood pumped by each side of the heart in one minute
Cardiac Output (CO)
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Volume of blood pumped by each ventricle in one contraction
Stroke volume
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The more that the cardiac muscle is stretched, the stronger the contraction.
Starling's law of the heart
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What is the most common way to change cardiac output.
Changing heart rate
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During stress or emergencies, what activates the heart to beat faster?
Sympathetic nervous system
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What happens when a body experiences physical and emotional trauma, increased body temperature, exercise, decreased blood volume, and low blood pressure?
Increased heart rate
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Two hormones that can increase heart rate:
Epinephrine Thyroxine
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Why there is a need to increased heart rate during exercise?
To supply muscles with oxygen
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During rest, what activates the heart to slow heart rate.
Parasympathetic nervous system
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What happens to a body when it experiences high blood pressure or blood volume, and decreased venous return?
Decreased heart rate
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Parts of the vascular system that takes blood to tissues and back
Arteries, Arterioles, Capillaries, Venules, Veins
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Three layers (tunics) of blood vessels:
Tunic intima, Tunic media, Tunic externa
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A tunic composed of endothelium
Tunic intima
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A tunic composed of smooth muscle and is controlled by the sympathetic NS
Tunic media
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This tunic is composed mostly of fibrous connective tissue
Tunic externa
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True or Fasle. Walls of the veins are the thickest.
False, it's the Arteries
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True or False. Lumens of veins are longer.
True
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What milks blood in veins toward the heart?
Skeletal muscle
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True or False. Walls of capillaries are only one cell layer thick to allow for exchanges between blood and tissues.
True
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Most arterial blood is pumped by the _________
Heart
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What does the veins use to help move blood?
Milking action
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Capillary beds consist of two types of vessels:
Vascular shunt, True capillaries
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What connects the arteriole to a venule?
Vascular shunt
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Known as the exchange vessels
True capillaries
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Direction of the diffusion of oxygen and nutrients at the capillary bed.
From blood to tissue cell
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Direction of the diffusion of carbon dioxide and metabolic waste products at the capillary bed.
From tissue cell to blood
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A process in which the blood, rich in nutrients after absorbing nutrients from the stomach, intestines, pancreas, and spleen, flows through the hepatic portal vein directly to the liver.
Hepatic portal circulation
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Oxygenated blood from the mother travels to the fetus through the ______________, which carries oxygen and nutrients to the fetal heart.
Umbilical vein
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Known as the pressure wave of blood
Pulse
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Pulse is monitored at ___________ where it is easily palpated.
Pressure points
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Measurements by health professionals are made on the pressure in __________________
Large arteries
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Pressure at the peak of ventricular contraction
Systolic
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Pressure when ventricles relax
Diastolic
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Pressure in blood vessels decreases as the distance away from the heart ____________
Increases
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Different factors that affect blood pressure
Neural factors, Renal Factors, Temperature, Chemicals, Diet
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Autonomic nervous system adjustments (sympathetic division)
Neural factors
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Regulation by altering blood volume
Renal factors
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Also known as hormonal control
Renin
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Heat: Vasodilation effect::Cold:
Vasoconstricting effect
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Normal blood pressure
140-110 mm Hg systolic 80-75 mm Hg diastolic
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Low systolic (below 110 mm HG); Often associated with illness
Hypotension
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High systolic (above 140 mm HG); Can be dangerous if it is chronic
Hypertension
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Substances exchanged due to concentration gradients.
Capillary exchange
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Where does the direct diffusion during capillary exchange occurs
Plasma membrane
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The gaps in capillaries where plasma membrane is not joined by tight junctions.
Intercellular clefts
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Also known as pores
Fenestrations
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A simple “tube heart” develops in the embryo and pumps by the ______________
Fourth week
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The heart becomes a four-chambered organ by the end of
Seven weeks
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Few structural changes occur after the
Seventh week

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