Unit 4 Lecutre Flashcards
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What part of the heart receives deoxygenated blood from the body?
Right atrium
What part of the heart sends deoxygenated blood to the lungs for gas exchange
Right ventricle
What part of the heart receives the oxygenated blood from the lungs
Left atrium
What part of the heart sends the oxygenated blood to the rest of the body?
Left ventricle
What part of the heart is the initial conduit for deoxygenated blood to pass to the lungs?
Pulmonary artery
What part of the heart is the initial conduit for all oxygenated blood to pass through before getting to the rest of the body?
Aorta
What is the one-way valve that connects the top chambers (atrium) to bottom chambers (ventricles)
Atrioventricular valve AKA mitral valve
What one way valves prevent back blood flow from adajecnt vessels when the bottom chambers relax
Semilunar valve
What are intercalated disks
They are complex junctions that hold the cardiac muscle together end to end and consist of interdigitated membranes
What are intercalated disks held by? They provide strength and transfer force to the adjacent cell
Desmosomes.
What part of the myocardial cells allows waves of depolarization of to pass rapidly between cells causing them to contract almost simultaneously
Gap junctions
What myocardial cells makes up ~99% of the heart, they are striated and have both thick and thin filaments organized into sarcomere? They modulate stroke volume
Contractile cells
What’s the specific myocardial cells make up ~1% of the heart, they are special for passing electrical signals around the heart
Conducting cells (autorythmic )
What do veins do?
Category of blood vessels that returns blood to the heart
What do arteries do?
Category of blood vessels that receives blood from the heart ventricles
What are arterioles ?
These Blood vessels are the primary site for vasoconstriction/ vasodilation because they contain large amounts of smooth muscle
What are capillaries?
Blood vessels where gas, nutrients & waste exchange occurs in the body tissues
What do venules do?
These blood vessels receive deoxygenated blood from capillaries
Which circuit of the cardiovascular system conducts deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs and returns oxygenated blood back to the heart (right side of the heart
Pulmonary circuit
What is the systemic circuit?
A circuit in the cardiovascular system that sends oxygenated blood from the heart to the body tissues and returns deoxygenated blood back to the heart (left side of the heart
What is stroke volume ?
The amount of blood pumped by one ventricle during a single contraction
What is cardiac output
Total amount volume of blood pumped by one ventricle during a minute
What is frank-starling law?
A concept that the heart must pump all the blood that returns to it & the force of heart contraction is determined by the volume of blood returning to it
What is a cardiac cycle
A term to describe all the electrical and physical events that happen in the heart during 1 contraction - relaxation