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The study of the heart and treatment of its disorders |
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The cardiovascular system consist of? |
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Heart: Muscular pump that keeps blood flowing BV: Delivers Blood to organs and returns blood to the heart. |
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arteries, arterioles,capillaries,venules, veins, venea caveae |
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What carries blood to the heart? |
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What carries blood away from the heart? |
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The circulatory system consist of? |
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Heat, blood vessels, blood |
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What carries blood to the lungs for gas exchange and eventually returns it to the heart? |
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Left side of the heart, supplies blood to all organs of the body, parts of the lung, and the wall of the heart itself. |
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What is the pathway of the pulmonary circuit? |
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Right atrium, right AV valve, right ventricle, pulmonary valve, pulmonary trunk, right and left pumonary arteries, lungs, Gas exchange occurs, O2 rich blood returns to the heart via right and left pumonary veins into the left atrium |
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What is the pathway of the Systemic Circuit? |
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Left atrium, left AV valve, Left Ventricle, Aoritc Valve, Aorta, Arteries, arterioles, cappilaries ect. |
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Great vessels consist of? |
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Major arteries and veins entering and leaving the heart. |
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Aorta, Pumonary trunk, right and left pumonary arteries. these are? |
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SVC/IVC and coronary sinus, right and left pumonary veins |
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What is enclosed in a double walled sac of a two layered membrane called the pericardium, the outer wall is the periatal pericadial sac. |
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What two layers make up the Periatal Pericardium or pericardial sac |
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Fiborus layer; Dense irregular CT Serous layer; Thin aerolar CT |
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The visceral Pericardium or Epicardium is formed by what? |
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The Serous layer of periatal pericardium which folds back on itself |
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The pericardial cavity is? |
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The space between the visceral and parietal pericardium. |
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The Pericardial cavity is lubricated with what? |
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Pericardial fluid. this fluid allows the heart to beat with minimal friction. |
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What does the heart wall consist of? |
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Epicardium, myocardium, endocardium |
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The visceral pericardium, made up of simple squamous epithelium overlaying aerolar tissue. some places are adipose free and translucent, others have adipose tissue. The largest branches of coronary BV travel through the epicardium |
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What layer of the heart wall is composed of thick cardiac muscle? |
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The myocardkum is the thickest layer. The thickness is proportional to the work load of chambers. The muscles |
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What enables the myocardial muscle layer to pump blood more efficiently? |
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A vortex which exhibits a twisting or wringing motion. |
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What is the smooth inner linning of the chambers in the heart? What epithelial tissue makes up this layer? |
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Endocardium. Simple squamous epithelium which overlies thin areolar tissue. There is no adipose tissue. Endocardium is continuous with endothelium of BV. |
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WHat are the four chambers of the heart? |
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Right and left atria, Right and left Ventricles |
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The two superior chambers with thin walls that receive blood returning to heart. |
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What is the small ear like extension that increases the capacity of both atria? |
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Which Chamber of the heart receives deoxygenated blood from the body? |
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Which chamber of the heart receives oxygenated blood from the lungs? |
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WHat separates the right atrium for the left atrium? |
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What joined the right and left atria of the fetal heart? |
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When does the Foramen ovale seal over in the heart? |
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