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| Angina pectoris is the term that refers to ______ that occurs when blood supply to heart muscle is insufficient. |
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| Mitral prolapse is the term given to the condition where the cusps of the mitral valve ________. |
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| If someone tells you that they have been diagnosed with a "hole in their heart", the problem is most likely a patent _______. |
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| Before the small vessel that allows blood to flow directly from the pulmonary trunk to the aorta in the fetus closes shortly after birth, it is called the _______. |
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| The condition where fatty material builds up in the wall of a supply vessel like a coronary artery and occludes blood flow in that vessel is called _______ . |
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| If a blood clot forms in a cornonary artery, that most specifically would be called coronary _______ . |
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| On the ECG trace, depolarization of the ventricles is represented by the _________ . |
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| On the ECG trace, there is no "wave" for _______ because it is a very small electrical event and it occurs during the large QRS complex. |
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| The second heart sound (dubb!) coincides in time with _________ . |
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| Isovolumetric contraction is the phase of the cardiac cycle when the ventricles are contracting and _______ is/are closed. |
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| When the pressure in the left ventricle becomes greater than that in the aorta, the _______ . |
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| The bundle of His carries the wave of heart muscle depolarization from the ____ to the ______ . |
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| atrial muscle, ventricular muscle |
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| Because it depolarizes and repolarizes the most ______, the SA node serves as the physiological pacemaker of the heart. |
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| Contraction of the cardiac muscle cells can be described as being the "most" involuntary, because they contract without receiving ______ . |
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| The only characteristic of cardiac muscle cells (fibers) that is unique to them and is not seen in skeletal or visceral muscle cells (fibers) is that cardiac cellls (fibers) ____ . |
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| You are a red blood cell in someone's left earlobe. In order,the structures that you would pass to get back to the earlobe would be _____ . |
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| superior vena cava, right ventricle, lungs, bicuspid valve, aorta |
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| The pulmonary arteries are usually diagrammed in blue (rather than red), because they _____ . |
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| contain deoxygenated blood |
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| Although they are very important in carrying oxygen-rich blood to the heart muscle, at the point where they branch from the aorta you only have _____ coronary arteries. |
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| The _____ valve prevents blood from flowing backward into the left ventricle. |
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| Because it has three flaps, the ____ heart valve is also called the tricuspid valve. |
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| The thin layer of connective tissue found just outside of and attached to the heart muscle is the _____ . |
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| The right side of the heart is called the ____ pump, because it pumps blood to the lungs. |
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| The flaps covering the upper chambers of the heart are called auricles because some early anatomist thought they looked like ____. |
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| Because they regulate their temperature metabolically and get all of their oxygen from their lungs, _____ require a four chambered heart with separate pulmonary and systemic pumps. |
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| In a homeostatic reflex control mechanism, the afferent nerve pathways are also called ______ nerves. |
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| Since blood is structurally a _____, it is composed of both formed elements and matrix. |
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| The difference between blood serum and blood plasma is that _____ does not contain clotting factors and _____ does. |
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| _______ is/are the most abundant component(s) of both blood matrix and formed elements. |
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| All of your circulating antibodies can be extracted from one of the three most abundant types of plasma protein. That protein is plasma _____ . |
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| Erythrocytes are the _____ formed elements in your blood. |
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| Pleuripotent ______ located in your bone marrow can be stimulated to develop into any of the kinds of blood formed elements. |
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| The largest of all the white blood cells is the _______. |
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| The large nucleated cell in bone marrow, small fragments of which break off to become platelets, is the ____. |
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| IF your ABO blood type is type O, you will have _____ antibodies in your blood plasma. |
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| The genes for ABO blood types are called "semi-dominant", because if you have the genes Ia and Ib your blood type will be _____. |
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| Your dad has told you that his ABO blood type is O and your mom's type is B. If that is the case, it would be impossible for any of their biological offspring to be anything but types _____. |
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| ABO type _____ is the least abundant ABO type in the US. However, these people benefit from being universal recipients. |
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| What must be the case for Rh incompatibility to be a problem? |
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| RH incompatibility is said to be causing erythroblastosis fetalis if ______ is/are found in the circulation of the fetus. |
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| nucleated red blood cells |
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| There is no ABO incompatibility problem (as with Rh incompatibility), because the Anti A and B ______ are larger thatn the IgM variety. |
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| The hemostasis process that slows blood loss by causing vasoconstriction is also called. |
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| The technical term "coagulation" refers to all of the molecular activities involved in the process of _____ . |
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| To activate the intrinsic pathway of blood clotting, damage occurs to the blood vessel from _____. |
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| The extrinsic and intrinsic pathways of clotting become the common pathway of clotting when the enzyme ____ is activated. |
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| Fibrin is the only molecule in the clotting process that is ______ . |
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| The walls of all supply vessels contain two layers of elastic connective tissue, one in the tunica _____ and the other in the tunica _____. |
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| The single layer of cells that lines supply and return vessels and makes up the wall of exchange vessels is called ____. |
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| Of the three types of exchange vessels, the type that are abundant in the kidneys and are "medium" leaky are called _____. |
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| Medium sized veins differ from all the other blood vessels in that they contain ____ to prevent blood from flowing backwards in them. |
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| Because of the conditions related to the flow of blood through them, ____ vessels are referred to as low pressure, low resistance vessels. |
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