The amount of blood pumped out by a ventricle with each heartbeat
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Activation of the sympathetic nervous system
Front
Increase stroke volume/cardiac output
Back
Where is fluid forced into at the venule end of the capillary bed?
Front
Not Sure???
Back
Systemic circuit
Front
provides the functional blood supply to all body tissue. It carries oxygen and nutrients to the cells and picks up carbon dioxide and waste products.
Back
infarct
Front
a small localized area of dead tissue resulting from failure of blood supply.
Back
What is the process through which substances move according to their concentration gradients?
Front
diffusion
Back
Fear
Front
Increase cardiac output
Back
Why is the heart called a double pump?
Front
One pump carries oxygen poor blood to the lungs, and the other pump delivers oxygen rich blood to your body.
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Activation of the vagus nerves
Front
Decrease in cardiac output
Back
What is the pressure that forces fluid out of capillaries?
Front
hydrostatic pressure, osmotic pressure
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Peripheral Congestion
Front
Condition caused by failure of the right side of the heart; results in edema in the extremities.
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Systole and diastole of atria (which valves are open, which are closed)
Front
Not Sure???
Back
Myocardium
Front
Thich bundles of cardiac muscle twisted and whorled into ring like arrangements, internally enforced by a dense, fibrous connective tissue network; the muscular tissue of the heart.
Back
What is the fluid filling the pericardial sac called?
Where is fluid forced into at the arteriole end of the capillary bed?
Front
Not Sure???
Back
Where do all exchanges to and from the blood and tissue cells occur?
Front
Through the interstitial fluid
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Depolarization
Front
Electrical activity that triggers the contraction of the heart muscle
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Which are the most permeable capillaries?
Front
Those that exhibit fenestrations
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papillary muscles
Front
muscles located in the ventricles of the heart. They attach to the cusps of the atrioventricular valves (also known as the mitral and tricuspid valves) via the chordae tendineae and contract to prevent inversion or prolapse of these valves on systole (or ventricular contraction).
Back
Epicardium
Front
Tightly hugs the external surface of the heart and is actually part of the heart wall.
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Hemorrhage
Front
Reduced cardiac output; increased HR
Back
Heart block
Front
an abnormal heart rhythm where the heart beats too slowly (bradycardia). In this condition, the electrical signals that tell the heart to contract are partially or totally blocked between the upper chambers (atria) and the lower chambers (ventricles).
Back
Tachycardia
Front
Rapid heart rate (over 100 beats per min)
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Which valves prevent backflow into the atria when the ventricles contract?
Front
Atrioventricular valves
Back
What is the force that causes fluid to reenter the blood?
Front
interstitial fluid, blood
Back
What is the coronary circulation? What is its purpose?
Front
the circulation of blood in the blood vessels of the heart muscle
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Epinephrine
Front
Increases heart rate/cardiac output
Back
Exercise
Front
Increase cardiac output
Back
Do substances need to be fat soluble to pass through the plasma membranes of capillary endothelial cells?
Front
Yes
Back
Ischemia
Front
an inadequate blood supply to an organ or part of the body, especially the heart muscles;
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What is the special name given to the heart muscle tissue?
Front
Cardiac Muscle Tissue
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High blood pressure
Front
Decreases cardiac output
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Define endocardium, myocardium and epicardium. Endocardium
Front
a thin, glistening sheet of endothelium that lines the heart chambers.
Back
Thyroxine
Front
Increases HR/cardiac output
Back
Which valves prevent backflow into the ventricles when the ventricles relax?
Front
Semilunar valves
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Repolarization
Front
Begins just before the relaxation phase of cardiac muscular activity
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Stroke volume
Front
The volume of blood pumped from the left ventricle per beat
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Bradycardia
Front
A heart rate substantially slower than normal (under 60 beats per minute)
Back
What is the pericardium?
Front
Encloses the heart in a double sac of serous membrane
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Low blood pressure
Front
Increases cardiac output
Back
What causes capillaries to be leaky?
Front
repeated flares of massive leakage of plasma from blood vessels into neighboring body cavities and muscles.
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Cardiac cycle
Front
Events of one complete heartbeat
Back
Systole and diastole of ventricles (which valves are open, which are closed)
Front
Not Sure???
Back
Fever
Front
increases cardiac output
Back
Fibrillation
Front
Rapid, uncontrolled shuttering of the heart muscle that makes the heart useless
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Pulmonary circuit
Front
The portion of the circulatory system which carries deoxygenated blood away from the right ventricle of the heart, to the lungs, and returns oxygenated blood to the left atrium and ventricle of the heart
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If not fat soluble, how do other substances pass through the endothelial cells?
Front
Through the capillary clefts, fenestrations, vesicles
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What direction does the apex of the heart point to?