circulatory system(test) Flashcards
(45 cards)
Heart
- size of fist
- located in mediastinum
- tilted to the left
- 4 chambers
- makes a lub dub sound
- sack around called pericardium
pericardium
sack around the heart
double layer membrane around the heart to reduce friction
4 chambers of heart
atrium
- top, right and left
- smaller and weaker than ventricles
- where blood comes into the heart
ventricles
- bottom, right and left
- left is stronger than the right, stronger muscle
- right sends blood to the lungs, left does everything else
4 vessels connecting to the heart
arteries: take blood away from the heart, connect to ventricles
- aorta: comes out of left ventricle, biggest artery, goes everywhere
- pulmonary: comes out of right ventricle, goes to lung, not rich in oxygen
veins: take blood away from the heart, connect to atrium
- vena cava: dumps into right atrium, blood from body to right atrium, everywhere but lungs
- pulmonary: blood rich in oxygen, come from lungs to left atrium
4 heart valves
1 way valves, prevent blood from going the wrong direction
AV valves: atrium-ventricle
- bicuspid(mitral), left valve
- tricuspid, right side
semilunar valves: @ beginning of arteries
- aortic, beginning or aorta arteries
- pulmonary, beginning of pulmonary arteries
how does the heart get oxygen
from coronary arteries, capillaries, veins
capillaries feed.
when artrum contracts…
blood goes to ventricle
the amount of blood in atrium when atrium contracts only makes up 20% of blood in ventricle, the ventricle is mostly filled by veins
contracting units
atrium and ventricles
conducting system
SA node, AV node, AV bundle, purkinje fibers
SA node
top right of heart, pacemaker
squeezing blood from atrium to ventricles
AV node
between atrium and ventricles
gets signal from SA node and sends message on, if SA isn’t working, AV will work on its own
arteries
- high pressure
- thickest walls
- blood away from the heart
- blood pressure measured here
veins
- low pressure
- one way valves
- blood to heart
- most of body’s blood (70%)
- movement is caused by skeletal muscle
- blue things see in skin
capillaries
- thinnest walls
- permeable
- only one blood cell at a time passing through
numbers relating to blood pressure
top number: systolic, high
bottom number: diastolic, low
blood pressure
up…
- increased blood volume
- increased heart rate (exercise)
down…
- decreased blood volume
cardiac output
stroke volume
volume of blood pumped per minute
hypotension
low blood pressure
hypertension
high blood pressure
arteries and arterioles
typically contain 25% of blood in circulation
pressure varies between 40-100 mm of mercury
- need pressure to move blood
most organs receive blood from more than one artery
- alternate ways in case one gets blocked
arteries are built to withstand the greatest pressure of the system, strong walls, thick layer of connective tissue, more muscular than veins
veins and venules
70% of blood is in veins and venules
little smooth muscle
low pressure
- pressure isn’t moving the blood, have to keep moving to keep blood moving, skeletal muscles
many of medium veins, especially in limbs, have one way valves
veins generally have a greater diameter than arteries but thinner walls. not as elastic, but stretch a little.
capillaries
actual site of exchange(oxygen, CO2, food and waste)
walls are a single cell thick, things move in and out
arranged in capillary beds
extremely abundant in most tissues of the body
only about 5% of blood is in capillaries, most are shut
lymphatic system
also known as immune system
lymph vessels, lymph nodes - WBC, lymph fluid
lymph fluid
when plasma is outside the blood