Chapter 20: The Heart Flashcards
Located in mediastinum. Average is 70bpm
Heart
Walls of the ______ ventricle or thicker than the _______ side
Left, right
The heart is surrounded by the ________ cavity which is lined by the pericardium.
pericardial
The _______ pericardium covers outer surface of heart.
Visceral pericardium (epicardium)
Middle layer of heart, Cardiac muscle, coronary blood vessels.
Myocardium
Lines inner layer of heart. Endothelium.
Endocardium
Valves that prevent backflow of blood. Separate the atria from the ventricles. Chordae tendinae and papillary muscles.
Atrioventricular Valves
Dense connective tissue. Prevents over stretching of valves. Electrical insulator between atria and ventricles
Fibrous Skeleton
Vessels that branch from ascending aorta. Supply heart muscle with oxygen and nutrients and remove waste products
Coronary Vessels
The right side of the heart is the ______ circuit.
Pulmonary Circuit
The left side of the heart is the ________ circuit.
Systemic Circuit
“Pacemaker cells tell all the other cells what to do. In right atrium
Sinoatrial node (SA node)
On right atrium floor. Relay the contractile stimulus to bundle of His, the bundle branches, Purkinje fibers, and ventricular myocardium
Atrioventricular node (AVnode)
The pulmonary veins carry ______ blood to the ______ atrium.
oxygenated, left
Cardiac veins empty their blood into the __________ atrium.
right atrium
The epicardium is also known as the __________ pericardium.
visceral pericardium
Which part of the conduction system initiates the depolarizing impulse, which spreads throughout the heart?
SA node
What does the ECG wave tracing ?
electrical activity in the heart
What does the QRS complex represent in the ECG wave tracing?
ventricular depolarization
Which part of the intrinsic conduction system delays the impulse briefly before it moves on to the ventricles?
AV node
ear-like extension of the atrium
auricle
The __________ valve prevents backward flow of blood into the left ventricle.
aortic
Action potentials generated by the autorhythmic cells spread to the contractile cells through what structures in the membrane?
gap junctions
One of the changes that occurs in the pacemaker potential (unstable resting membrane potential) in the SA node (an autorhythmic cell) is a decreased efflux of what ion?
potassium