Heart and Blood Vessels Key terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Arteries | -blood vessels carrying blood from the heart to capillaries in body tissues. |
| Pulmonary Arteries | -carry deoxyonized blood. |
| Pulmonary veins | -O2 blood. |
| endo | -within |
| Atirum | -(atrium=vestibule) -A heart chamber that receives blood returned to the heart by veins. |
| Capillaries | -Tiny blood vessels in tissues where exchange of materials between the blood and tissue cells occurs. |
| Pericardium(peri=around) | -The membranous sac enclosing the heart. |
| Pulmonary circuit | -(pulmo=lungs) -Transport of blood to and from the lungs. |
| Systememic circuit | -Transport of blood to and from all parts of the body except lungs. |
| Vasoconstrictin (vas=vessel) | -A decrease in the diameter of blood vessels. |
| Vasodilation | -An increase in the diameter of blood vessels. |
| Veins | -Blood vessels carrying bood from capillaries in body toward the heart. |
| Ventricle | -(ventr-underside) A heart chamber that pumps blood into an artery. |
| Two layers of pericardium | -fibrous pericardium -inner parietal pericardium. |
| Myocardium (mi=muscle) | -thick layer of cardiac muscle that consists of the heart wall. |
| Epicarduim or visceral pericardium | -the thin membrane that is firmly attached to the exterior surface of the myocardium. |
| Endocardium | internal surface of the myocardium -single layer of squamous epithelium. |
| inter | -between |
| Cardiac cycle | --blood flows from the atria into the ventricles during ventricular diastole. -blood is pumped from the ventricles during ventricular systole. |
| Blood flow | -Superior and Inferior Vena Cava -Right Atrium -Tricuspid Valve -Right Ventricle -Pulmonary Trunk -Pumonary Artieries -Into Right and Left Lungs -Filters Blood -Back through Pulmonary veins -Left Atrium -Biscupid/Mitral Valve -Left Ventricle -Aoritc Valve -Aorta(largest Artery |
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