Lecture Exam 2 Flashcards
Where is the heart located?
mediastinum
What is the valve labeled A?

Aortic Semilunar Valve
What is the valve labeled B?

Right Atrioventricular Valve
What is the valve labeled C?

Pulmonary Semilunar Valve
What is the valve labeled D?

Left Atrioventricular Valve
What does the right side of the heart do?
Receives deoxygenated blood and pumps it to the lungs
What does the left side of the heart do?
Receives oxygenated blood from the lungs and pumps it to the body.
Where does the pulmonary trunk transport from?
The right ventricle
Where do the vena cavae deposit their blood?
Right atrium
Where do the pulmonary veins deposit blood into?
The left atrium
What are the layers of the pericardium?
Fibrous pericardium
Parietal serous pericardium
Pericardial cavity
Visceral pericardium
What is this person experiencing?

Pericardial effusion
Left pleural effusion
Evidence of right heart failure
Pericarditis
What are the layers of the heart wall?
Epicardium
Myocardium
Endocardium
What are these symptoms of?
Chest pain
- A rapid or abnormal heartbeat (arrhythmia)
- Shortness of breath, at rest or during physical activity
- Fluid retention with swelling of your legs, ankles and feet
- Fatigue
- Other signs and symptoms you’d have with a viral infection, such as a headache, body aches, joint pain, fever, a sore throat or diarrhea
Myocarditis
What tissue type makes up the fibrous skeleton of the heart, and what are its functions?
Dense Irregular Connective Tissue
– Forms the foundation for which the heart valves attach
– Serves as a point of insertion for cardiac muscle bundles
– Prevents overstretching of the heart valves
– Acts as an electrical insulator
What is the function of atrioventricular valves?
Prevent backflow from the ventricles into the atria
What is the function of semilunar valves?
Prevent backflow from the arteries into the ventricles
What usually involves AV valves and often results in valve replacement surgery?
Severe Endocarditis
What are these symptoms of?
– Thoracic pain caused by a fleeting deficiency in blood delivery to the myocardium
– Cells are weakened
Angina Pectoris
What are these symptoms of?
– Prolonged coronary blockage
– Areas of cell death are repaired with noncontractile scar tissue
Myocardial Infarction
What are the defining factors of cardiac muscle tissue?
- T tubules are wide but less numerous; SR is simpler than in skeletal muscle
- Numerous large mitochondria (25– 35% of cell volume)
- Desmosomes prevent cells from separating during contraction
- Gap junctions allow ions to pass; electrically couples adjacent cells
What are the defining factors of cardiac muscle contraction?
- Some cardiac muscle cells are self excitatory
- Gap junctions in cardiac muscle tie it together so the depolarization wave travels from cell to cell
- Refractory period lasts 250ms
What is the SA node?
Sinoatrial node, pacemaker
What causes the depolarization, plateau, and repolarization?
Depolarization: Na+ inflow
Plateau: Ca2+ inflow and K+ outflow
Repolarization: K+ outflow
