MA 110 CH 5
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- Left Atrium (LA) Blood Flow
- Receives Oxygen-rich blood from the lungs through the four pulmonary veins.
- Right Ventricle (RV) Blood Flow
- Pumps onygen poor blood through the pulmonary semilunar valve and into the pulmonary artery, which carries it to the lungs.
- Right Atrium (RA) Blood Flow
- Receives oxygen poor blood from all tissues except the lungs.
- Tachy-
- fast
- Thromb/o
- clot
- Ven/o
- vein
- Heart
- Card/o, Cardi/o
- Blood Vessels
- Angi/o Vas/o
- Name 3 Types of Blood vessels.
- Arteries, Capillaries, Veins
- Arteries
- Arteri/o
- Cappillaries
- capill/o
- Veins
- Phleb/o or Ven/o
- Blood
- Hem/o or Hemat/o
- Hearts Primary Function
- Pump blood into the arteries.
- Blood Vessels Primary Function
- Transport blood to and from all areas of the body
- Arteries Primary Function
- Transport blood away from the heart to all parts of the body.
- Capillaries
- Permit the exchange of nutrients and waste products between the blood and the cells.
- Blood primary function
- Brings oxygen and nutrients to the cells and carries away waste.
- Angi/o
- Blood or Lymph vessel
- Aort/o
- Aorta
- Arteri/o
- Artery
- Brady
- -slow
- Cardi/i
- heart
- -crasia
- Mixture or blending
- -emia
- Blood
- Erythr/o
- Red
- Hem/o, hemat/o
- Blood
- Isch
- Back
- Leuk/o
- White
- Lymph/o
- Lymph
- Phleb/o
- Vein
- -penia
- defficiency
- Left Ventrical (LV) Blood Flow
- Received oxygen rich blood from the LA. Blood flows to all parts of boy except lungs.
- Venae Cavae part in blood flow
- Oxygen poor blood is returned to the VC ro the right Atrium
- Arterioles Function
- The distal branches of the arteries that carry blood to the capillaries. Help to determine blood pressure.
- Capillaries primary function
- Permit the exchnce of nutrients and waste products between blood and the cells.
- Veins primary function
- Return blood from all body parts to the heart
- Name 3 components of blood
- Erythrocytes, Leukocytes, Thrombocytes
- Thrombocytes
- Platelets - assist in clotting
- Blood is 55% what?
- Plasma
- Blood is 45 % what?
- Formed Elements, Red, white and platelets.
- Pulmonary Circulation is the flow of blood between
- The heart and lungs only!
- Systemic blood flow includes
- Blood to all parts of the body except the lungs
- ACE Inhibitor
- Angiotension Convertin Enzyme inhibitor. Popular antihypertensive drug.
- Anemia
- Lower than normal erythrocytes
- Aneurysm
- Soft spot in a blood vessel
- Angioplasty
- Surgical repair of blood vessle
- Anticoagulant
- Drug that prevents clotting
- Aplastic Anemia
- Lower than normal blood cells of all types
- Arrythmia
- Irregular heart beat
- Atheroma
- Characteristic of Athreosclerosis - deposit of plaque on or withing the arterial wall
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Excessive beating of the arteria
- Beta-blocker
- Drug that slows heart & reduces BP by blocking beta receptors
- Blood Dyscarsia
- Any pathologic condition of the cellular elements of the blood.
- Bradycardia
- Slow heart rate
- Cardiac catheterization
- Placing a tube in the heart
- Cardiomyopathy
- Disease of the heart muscle
- Carotid Endoarterectomy
- Surgical removal of the lining of a portion of a clogged artery
- Cholesterol
- A form of lipid found in the blood
- Coronary Thrombosis
- A blood clot in a coronary vessel.
- defibrillation
- normalizing depolarization of heart muscle
- diuretic
- drug that increases urine output
- electrocardiogram
- recording of electrical activity of the heart
- Embolism
- blockage of a blood vessel by embolus
- Embolus
- clot or fat or other substance "inserted" into a blood vessel
- Endocarditis
- inflammation in heart lining
- Hemoglobin
- molecule that transports oxygen in blood
- hemolytic anemia
- low numbers of erythrocytes because of red cell destruction
- homeostasis
- maintaining normal blood conditions
- Ischemic heart disease
- not enough blood reaching heart muscle
- leukemia
- cancer that causes too many white blood cells
- leucocytes
- white blood cells
- leucopenia
- less than normal blood cells
- Megaloblastic anemia
- Blood disorder in which red cells are excessively large
- Myocardial infarction
- injury of heart muscle due to inadequate oxygen
- Orthostatic hypotension
- low blood pressure upon standing
- pernicious anemia
- low red cells due to low vitamin B12
- Phelbitis
- inflammation of veins
- Raynaud's Phenomenon
- Peripheral artery disease often made worse by cold
- Septicemia
- infection in blood
- Sickle cell anemia
- inherited anemia most common in people of African descent
- Tachycardia
- excessive heart rate
- Thrombolytic
- drug that breaks up clots
- Thrombus
- Clot
- Valvulitis
- inflammation of the heart valve (s)
- Vericose Veins
- enlarged veins
- Ventricular fibrillation
- useless contractions of ventricular muscle, fatal if not reversed
- ventricular tachycardia
- A rapid heart beat in the ventricles
- Arterioles
- distal end of artery - assist in blood pressures
- SA (sinoarterial) Node
- located in the posterial wall of the RA near the entrance of the superior vena cava. Establishes a basic rythm and rate of the heartbeat.
- What is the "Natural Pacemaker."
- The SA (sinoarterial) Node.
- AV (atrioventricular) Node
- Located: Floor of RA. Transmits electrical impulses to the Bundle of His.
- Plasma
- Fluid in blood containing hormones, nutrients and waste products.
- Serum
- Is plasma fluid after blood cells and the clotting proteins have been removed.
- Atherosclerosis
- abnormal hardening of the artery
- Atherosclerosis is caused by what?
- cholesterol plaque building up on the interior wall of the artery
- Angina
- episodes of chest pain due to inadequate blood flow to the myocardium.
- Heart Murmur
- An abnormal sound herd when listening to the heart
- Hemangioma
- A benign tumor made up of newly formed blood vessels
- polycythemia
- abnormal increase in the number of red cells in blood due to an excessive production from bone marrow.
- Hemolysis
- destruction of red blood cells.
- Hypertension
- high blood pressure
- Hypotension
- lower than normal arterial blood pressure.
- Holter monitor
- Portable electrocardiograph that is worn by an ambulatory patient over a 24 hr period to monitor heart rate.