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Number 1. (CV system) an organ system that functions in transportation of molecules and cells to maintain homeostasis in the body; three components are the heart, blood, and blood vessels
Correct Answer: cardiovascular system
Number 2. a thin-walled, large lumen vessel that carries blood toward the heart
Correct Answer: veins
Number 3. a vessel that transports blood away from the heart
Correct Answer: arteries
Number 4. a muscular organ about the size of your fist that lies within the pericardial cavity of the mediastinum that pumps blood through the body
Correct Answer: heart
Number 5. smaller arteries
Correct Answer: arterioles
Number 6. smallest diameter of vessels that connect arteries and veins
Correct Answer: capillaries
Number 7. series of myocardial contractions and relaxations that make up one heartbeat
Correct Answer: cardiac cycle
Number 8. a membrane that encloses the heart
Correct Answer: pericardium
Number 9. a lubricating fluid functioning to decrease friction during the heart’s beating movement
Correct Answer: serous fluid
Number 10. the valve found between the left atrium and left ventricle
Correct Answer: Mitral Valve
Number 11. those valves found between the atria and ventricles
Correct Answer: Atrioventricular (AV) Valves
Number 12. on the right side of the heart
Correct Answer: Tricuspid Valve
Number 13. those valves at the top of the heart
Correct Answer: Semilunar Valves
Number 14. on the right side of the heart
Correct Answer: Pulmonary Valve
Number 15. on the left side of the heart
Correct Answer: Aortic Valve
Number 16. period of contraction that the heart undergoes while it pumps blood into circulation
Correct Answer: Systole Phase
Number 17. period of relaxation that occurs as the chambers fill with blood
Correct Answer: Diastole Phase
Number 18. the top chambers of the heart
Correct Answer: atria
Number 19. The AV valves close after blood is emptied from the atria.
Correct Answer: Ventricular diastole phase
Number 20. The bottom chambers (ventricles) are filled with blood and contract simultaneously, and blood flows out to the lungs and body through open semilunar valves
Correct Answer: Ventricular systole phase
Number 21. close after blood is emptied from the ventricles
Correct Answer: semilunar valves
Number 22. Listening to the heart for sounds with a stethoscope
Correct Answer: auscultation
Number 23. an instrument used to listen to a heartbeat
Correct Answer: stethoscope
Number 24. an abnormal heart sound
Correct Answer: murmur
Number 25. the moving structures such as valves and muscle
Correct Answer: mechanical system
Number 26. the electrical part or the conduction system where cells depolarize
Correct Answer: electrical system
Number 27. the parts where blood travels, such as inside the chamber and within the coronary arteries
Correct Answer: plumbing system
Number 28. (SV) volume of blood pumped out of the heart with each beat (average volume is 70ml)
Correct Answer: stroke volume
Number 29. (CO) volume of blood pumped out in one minute
Correct Answer: cardiac output
Number 30. supply blood to the heart muscle
Correct Answer: coronary arteries
Number 31. supplies blood to right side of the heart
Correct Answer: Right Coronary Artery
Number 32. supplies blood to the left side of the heart
Correct Answer: Left Main Coronary Artery
Number 33. reduction in oxygen can lead to a heart attack
Correct Answer: myocardial infarction
Number 34. most common cause of heart disease; a buildup of plaque in the inner lining of an artery causing it to narrow or become blocked
Correct Answer: Atherosclerosis
Number 35. a double-sac that contains serous fluid
Correct Answer: inner layer of pericardium
Number 36. composed of connective tissue stabilizing the heart within the cavity
Correct Answer: outer layer of pericardium
Number 37. this system delivers electrical impulses of the heart producing muscular contractions
Correct Answer: conduction system
Number 38. process of reversing the charge across a cell membrane
Correct Answer: depolarize
Number 39. corresponds with atrial contraction and atrial depolarization
Correct Answer: P wave
Number 40. corresponds with ventricular contraction (systole) and ventricular depolarization
Correct Answer: QRS complex
Number 41. corresponds with end of ventricular contraction (systole) and beginning of ventricular relaxation
Correct Answer: T wave
Number 42. causes destruction of red blood cells
Correct Answer: hemotoxic
Number 43. uncontrolled bleeding
Correct Answer: hemorrhaging
Number 44. red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets
Correct Answer: formed elements
Number 45. the plasma
Correct Answer: extracellular matrix
Number 46. cellular fragments and make up a very small percentage (0.01%) of the blood, but are crucial in stopping bleeding at damaged sites
Correct Answer: platelets
Number 47. the process in which blood cells are formed and matured
Correct Answer: hematopoiesis
Number 48. the protein molecule in red blood cells that carries oxygen
Correct Answer: hemoglobin
Number 49. platelets
Correct Answer: thrombocytes
Number 50. blood protein produced in response to a specific antigen/part of immunity
Correct Answer: antibodies
Number 51. most abundant plasma protein, made in the liver, important factor in regulating the exchange of water between the plasma and the space between the cells
Correct Answer: albumin
Number 52. a classification of blood based on the presence or absence of antigens on the surface of red blood cells; 35 different blood groups in humans
Correct Answer: blood type
Number 53. protein that evokes an immune response
Correct Answer: antigens
Number 54. The process of transferring the blood of a person into the veins of another.
Correct Answer: blood transfusion
Number 55. you have the “A” antigen on your RBC surface
Correct Answer: type A blood
Number 56. you have the “B” antigen on your RBC surface
Correct Answer: type B blood
Number 57. you have both “A” and "B" antigens on your RBC surface but no antibodies present
Correct Answer: type AB blood
Number 58. does not have any “A” or “B” antigens, but has both “A” and “B” antibodies
Correct Answer: type O blood
Number 59. the clumping of blood
Correct Answer: agglutination
Number 60. carries oxygenated blood to brain
Correct Answer: Common Carotid Artery
Number 61. carries deoxygenated blood from brain to heart
Correct Answer: Internal and External Jugular Vein
Number 62. carries deoxygenated blood from brain to heart
Correct Answer: Superior and Inferior Vena Cava
Number 63. carries oxygenated blood to arms
Correct Answer: Brachial Artery
Number 64. carries deoxygenated blood from arm to heart
Correct Answer: Brachial Vein
Number 65. carries oxygenated blood to lower extremities
Correct Answer: Femoral Artery
Number 66. carries deoxygenated blood from lower extremities to heart
Correct Answer: Femoral Vein
Number 67. largest artery in the body carrying blood from heart
Correct Answer: Abdominal Aorta
Number 68. the largest artery in the body
Correct Answer: Aorta
Number 69. carries blood to the lungs, but is oxygen-poor blood
Correct Answer: Pulmonary artery
Number 70. Part of blood circulation that carries deoxygenated blood away from the heart, to the lungs, and returns oxygenated (oxygen-rich) blood back to the heart.
Correct Answer: pulmonary circulation
Number 71. the process of plaque buildup in the lining of the heart’s arteries that leads to narrowing of that artery
Correct Answer: coronary heart disease
Number 72. high LDL levels “bad” cholesterol
Correct Answer: Elevated Cholesterol
Number 73. fats in the blood
Correct Answer: Elevated triglycerides
Number 74. “good cholesterol” carrying bad cholesterol to the liver for excretion
Correct Answer: Low HDL levels
Number 75. also called a myocardial infarction or MI, occurs when the heart muscle (or myocardium) itself does not receive enough oxygen-rich blood
Correct Answer: heart attack
Number 76. a heart attack
Correct Answer: myocardial infarction
Number 77. the heart muscle
Correct Answer: myocardium
Number 78. a blood clot
Correct Answer: thrombus