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Which of the following is a function of the cardiovascular system
Which of the following is a function of the cardiovascular system
Structure of the heart
Where is the heart located
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What is the heart made up of
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What is the function of the heart
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What makes up the outer surface of the heart
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What is the term for the muscle tissue of the heart
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What is the inner surface of the heart
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What lines the interior walls of the heart, chambers, and luminal surfaces of blood vessels
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What are the chambers
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What are the left and right sides of the heart separated by
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What are the ventricles and atria separated by
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What structure prevents backflow of blood back into the ventricles when blood is being pumped out
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What is the cardiovascular system divided into
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The systemic circulation makes up how much of blood volume
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The pulmonary circulation makes up how much of blood volume
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Both the systemic and pulmonary circulation has both venous and arterial systems
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Only the pulmonary circulation has arterial and venous systems, the systemic circulation only has a venous system
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The systemic arterial circulation is a low pressure system
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The systemic arterial circulation is a high pressure system
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Hydrostatic pressure is not necessary to perfuse tissues with a high resistance to blood flow
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Hydrostatic pressure is required to perfuse tissues with a high resistance to blood flow
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Which of the following statements is accurate to the pulmonary arterial and venous & systemic venous circulations
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High pressures in venous systems may cause fluid to leak from the vessels and to accumulate as edema
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Low pressures in venous systems may cause fluid to leak from the vessels and to accumulate as edema
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Blood pressure
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Blood pressure refers to systemic arterial blood pressure
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Blood pressure refers to systemic venous blood pressure
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Blood pressure refers to pulmonary arterial blood pressure
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Systemic arterial blood pressure rises and falls in coordination with the circadian rhythm
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Systemic arterial blood pressure rises and falls in coordination with the cardiac cycle
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Systole
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Diastole
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What allows proper tissue perfusion & prevention of edema formation (capillaries and veins)
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How does the contraction & relaxation of the heart occur
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Difference between systolic and diastolic pressures
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Increase in BP & resistance is caused by
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What controls the vasoconstriction of arterioles
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What NS is dominant at rest
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At rest, blood flow is directed towards
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Intrinsic ability for spontaneous depolarization & repolarization results in
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Depolarization occurs ONLY when stimulated by a nerve ending
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Depolarization occurs w/o stimulation by a nerve-ending
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Cardiac tissues have ____________, which causes depolarization to occur w/o stimulation by a nerve ending
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Muscle fibers w/in the RA =
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Terminology for "listening to the heart" is ___________ ____________
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Most important factor of the regulation of the heart is the
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HR can be determined by various factors including body temperature
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Term for normal heart rhythm
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What is the sinus rhythm determined by
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Arrhythmias can be
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A bradyarrhythmia is
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A tachyarrhythmia is
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How is contractility of the myocardium determined by (at the molecular level
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Which of the following has a high resistance to blood flow
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What is required to perfuse the following tissues; heart, kidney, brain, & other tissues above the heart
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How many parts is the cardiac cycle divided into
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Systole corresponds to
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Diastole corresponds to
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Systole is when
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Diastole is when
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Common pulse point location for the cat
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Common pulse point location of a dog
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Cardiac muscle fibers are
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Much like skeletal muscle, impulses travel cell to cell, via intercalated discs in a wave like fashion
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unlike skeletal muscle, impulses travel cell to cell, via intercalated discs in a wave like fashion
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The heart does not contract as a unit, but rather, the individual chambers contract intermittently
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The heart contracts as a unit or not at all
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What determines the rate of spontaneous depolarization of the SA node
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An electrocardiogram CANNOT determine heart rate
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An electrocardiogram can determine heart rate
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Does the sympathetic NS impact level of contractility of the myocardium?
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What can cause increase in rate & force of myocardial contraction by increasing the amount of calcium available
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