CVS Flashcards
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ORGANISATION OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
•The cardiovascular system is a (open or closed?) system of a pump and conduits in the body through which blood circulates.
Closed
CVS
•It consists of:
a. the HEART -which is the ____
b. the BLOOD VESSELS – the ______
pump
conduit channels.
The heart has four chambers – left and right atria and left and right ventricles.
Though it is actually two pumps in (series or parallel?) .
Series
The left ventricle pumps blood through the arteries and arterioles (________) and capillaries (______) vessels, through the venules and veins (______) vessels back into the right atrium.
The right atrium pumps the blood into the right ventricle to complete the ventricular filling.
conductance
exchange
capacitance
The right ventricle pumps blood through the ______ circulation.
Pulmonary
The pulmonary circulation is a (low or high?) pressure circulation while the left ventricle pumps blood through the (low or high?) pressure ______ circulation.
Low
High; systemic
The atria assist the ventricles by forcing extra blood into the ventricles after the period of ‘ _______ ’. This improves the efficiency of the pumps.
passive filling
The generation of a pressure head by the _____ action of the ____ and the sustenance of this pressure by the ____ properties of the _____ ensure the constant flow of blood round the whole body.
pumping; heart
elastic; arteries
THE HEART
- The heart is made up of a different type of muscle, known as the cardiac muscle or _______.
- The cells of the heart muscle are (short or long?) and (straight or branched?) and join to each other at ___ junctions with ____ discs- which allow for communication between the cells.
- This arrangement makes the whole cardiac muscle to function as a continuous unit called _______.
MYOCARDIUM
Long; branched
gap ; intercalated discs
syncytium
intercalated discs
porous or non -porous discs
Porous discs
The superior and inferior vena cava join to form the _____ and open into the _____ near the location of the ________ Node.
The right atrium opens into the right ventricle through the atrio-ventricular valve (_____ valve).
While left atrium opens into the left ventricle through the ______ valve.
The ______ septum separates the left ventricle from the right ventricle.
sinus venosus
right atrium
Sino-Atrial (SA)
TRICUSPID
BICUSPID MITRAL
interventricular
The pulmonary valve (____) guards the opening of the _______ to the pulmonary artery while the aortic valve is at the opening of the _____ into the aorta.
Semilunar
right ventricle
left ventricle
The left atrium receives _____ blood from the ______ veins.
oxygenated
pulmonary
The cusps of the AV valves are supported by the ________ which are specialised tissue anchored to the _______
chordae tendinae
ventricular walls.
A cut section through the wall will reveal the various layers of cardiac tissue epicardium on the outside, myocardium in-between and the endocardium covering the chamber wall. There is a Parietal pericardial membrane surrounding the heart and with the visceral pericardium create a space surrounding the heart.
Ah
BLOOD VESSELS
•The aorta and arteries act as a (high or low?) -pressure storage reservoir.
- The flow of blood into the arteries during systole ____ the outflow at the arteriolar end and thus leads to ___ease in arterial volume and pressure.
- During diastole, _____ of the arterial walls provides a _____ to propel blood out of the arteries and thus maintain flow.
High
exceeds
Incr
elastic recoil
driving force
The (thin or thick?) aorta contains mainly ____ tissue
arteries contain ____ tissue and ______
the arterioles contain mainly contractile _____.
Capillaries which are exchange vessels contain mainly _______.
Thick; elastic
elastic; smooth muscle
smooth muscle
epithelial cells
Capillaries feed into (thin or thick?) -walled venules that coalesce to veins that contain valves which are ____ vessels and vena cava that return blood to the right atrium.
Thin
capacitance
The electrical excitation of the heart starts from the _____ node which is at the head of a specialised cardiac conduction system.
•___ node —________ ______________ -________ – other muscle fibres of ventricles.
sino-atrial
SA
internodal pathways
Atrioventricular node
Bundle of His
Purkinje fibres
The electrical excitation of the heart starts from the Sinoatrial node (SA node), the ______ which is at the head of a specialised cardiac conduction system.
pacemaker
Anterior Internodal pathway of ___
Middle “ “ “ _______
Post. “ “ “ of ____
Bachman
Wenckebach
Thorel
Conduction velocities of parts of the heart •SA node \_\_\_ m/s •Internodal pathways \_\_\_ m/s •AV node \_\_\_\_\_ m/s •Bundle of His \_\_m/s •Purkinje Fibres \_\_\_ m/s •Other muscle fibres vt. \_\_ m/s
0.05
1
0.05
1
4
1
Other parts of the heart are capable of also initiating electrical activity on their own. However the S.A. discharges _____ (due to its ______).
This pre-empts the others thus setting the pace for the heart beat. This is why the S.A. node is called the Cardiac _______.
faster
unstable membrane potential
Pacemaker
The specialised conductive tissue of the heart contains more ______ and _____. The boundaries of its fibres are (precise or diffuse?) .
glycogen & sarcoplasm
Diffuse