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| Name the term: Largest artery in the body |
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| Name the term: Small artery |
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| Name the term: Largest type of blood vessel; carries blood away from the heart to all parts of the body. |
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| Specialized muscle fibers connecting the atria with the ventricles and transmitting electrical impulses between them. |
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| atrioventricular bundle (bundle of His) |
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| Name the term: Specialized tissue in the wall between the atria. Electrical impulses pass from the pacemaker (SA node) through the AV node and the atrioventricular bundle of bundle of His toward the ventricles. |
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| atrioventricular node (AV node) |
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| Name the term: One of two upper chambers of the heart. |
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| Name the term: Smallest blood vessel. |
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| capillary. Materials pass to and from the bloodstream through the thin capillary walls. |
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| Name the term: Gas (waste) released by body cells, transported via veins to the heart, and then to the lungs for exhalation. |
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| Name the term: Blood vessels that branch from the aorta and carry oxygen-rich blood to the heart muscle. |
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| Name the term: Blood that is oxygen-poor. |
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| Name the term: Relaxation phase of the heartbeat. |
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| Name the term: Record of the electricity flowing through the heart. |
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| electrocardiogram. The electricity is represented by waves or deflections called P, QRS, or T. |
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| Name the term: Inner lining of the heart. |
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| Name the term: Innermost lining of blood vessels. |
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| Name the term: Valve between the left atrium and the left ventricle; bicuspid valve. |
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| Name the term: Abnormal swishing sound caused by improper closure of the heart valves. |
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| Name the term: Muscular, middle layer of the heart. |
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| Name the term: Heart rhythm originating in the sinoatrial node with a resting rate of 60-100 beats per minute. |
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| Name the term: Gass that enters the blood through the lungs and travels to the heart to be pumped via arteries to all body cells. |
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| Name the term: Specialized nervous tissue in the right atrium that begins the heartbeat. |
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| pacemaker (sinoatrial node). An artificial cardiac pacemaker is an electronic apparatus implanted in the chest to stimulate heart muscle that is weak and not functioning. |
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| Name the term: Double-layered membrane surrounding the heart. |
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| Name the term: Artery carrying oxygen-poor blood from the heart to the lungs. |
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| Name the term: Flow of blood from the heart to the lungs and back to the heart. |
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| Name the term: Valve positioned between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery. |
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| One of two pairs of vessels carrying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart. |
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| Name the term: Beat of the heart as felt though the walls of the arteries. |
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| Name the term: Partition or wall dividing a cavity; such as between the right and left atria, and right and left ventricles. |
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| Name the term: Pacemaker of the heart. |
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| sinoatrial node (SA node) |
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| Name the term: Instrument to measure blood pressure. |
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| Name the term: Flow of blood from body tissue to the heart and then from the heart back to body tissues. |
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| Name the term: Contraction phase of the heartbeat. |
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| Name the term: Located between the right atrium and the right ventricle; it has 3 leaflets, or cusps |
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| Name the term: Structure in veins or in the heart that temporarily closes an opening so that blood flows in only one direction. |
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| Name the term: Thin-walled vessel that carries blood from body tissues and lungs back to the heart. Veins contain valves to prevent backflow of blood. |
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| Name the term: Largest vein in the body. |
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| vena cava (plural: venae cavae). The superior and inferior venae cavae return blood to the right atrium of the heart. |
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| The superior and inferior venae cavae return blood to the right atrium of the heart.One of two lower chambers of the heart. |
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| Name the term: valve that lies between the right atrium and the right ventricle |
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| Name the term: smallest blood vessel |
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| Name the term: carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart. |
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| Name the term: largest artery in the body |
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| brings oxygen-poor blood into the heart from the upper parts of the body |
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| Name the term: upper chamber of the heart |
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| Name the term: carries oxygen-poor blood to the lungs from the heart |
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| Name the term: small artery |
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| valve that lies between the left atrium and the left ventricle |
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| Name the term: brings blood from the lower half of the body to the heart |
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| Name the term: a small vein |
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| Name the term: lower chamber of the heart |
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| Trace the path of blood through the heart. Begin as the blood enters the right atrium from the venae cavae (and include the valves within the heart). |
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| Right atrium, Tricuspid valve, right ventricle, pulmonary valve, pulmonary artery, capillaries of the lung, pulmonary veins, left atrium, mitral valve, left ventricle, aortic valve, aorta |
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| Complete the sentence: The pacemaker of the heart is the _________________. |
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| Complete the sentence: The sac-like membrane surrounding the heart is the ________________. |
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| Complete the sentence: The wall of the heart between the right and the left atria is the _______________ |
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| Complete the sentence: The relaxation phase of the heartbeat is called _____________ |
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| Complete the sentence: Specialized conductive tissue in the wall between the ventricles is the ___________________ |
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| atrioventricular bundle of bundle of His |
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| Complete the sentence: The inner lining of the heart is the ____________________ |
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| Complete the sentence: The contractive phase of the heartbeat is called _________________ |
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| Complete the sentence: A gas released as a metabolic product of catabolism is _____________ |
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| Complete the sentence: Specialized conductive tissue at the base of the wall between the two upper heart chambers is the ________________________________ |
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| atrioventricular (AV) node |
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| Complete the sentence: An abnormal heart sound due to imporper closure of heart valves is a ____________________ |
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| Complete the sentence: The beat of the heart as felt throught the walls of arteries is called the ___________________ |
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| Complete the sentence: The inner lining of the pericardium, adhering to the outside of the heart, is the ____________________. |
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| visceral pericardium (the outer lining is the parietal pericardium) |
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