Question | Answer |
The cardiovascular system is made up of? | The heart and blood vessels |
What do the arteries carry from the heart to the tissues and organs? | Blood |
Deoxygenated blood takes on what colour? | Purple |
What is the sac the heart found in? | Pericardium |
What is the muscle layer of the heart? | Myocardium |
What does the pulmonary semilunar valve prevent? | Regurgitation (back flow) |
What do the right and left pulmonary veins carry back to the heart? | Oxygenated blood |
What does aortic semilunar valve permit? | Blood flow in one direction |
The arterial system composed of the coronary arteries branches from? And provide what with its own blood supply? | Aorta. Myocardium |
What is the specialized cardiac tissue within the heart? | Conduction tissue |
What is the sa node known as? | The pacemaker |
Electrical impulses are recorded on what instrument? | Echocardiogram |
Blood pressure is measured with what? | Sphygmomanometer |
What is the contraction phase of the hear called? | Systole |
The relaxation phase of the heart is called? | Diastole |
Hypertension is called what? | High blood pressure |
Hypotension is what? | Low blood pressure |
Cad means ? | Coronary artery disease |
Irregular heart beats are called what? | Arrhythmia |
Infarction refers to what ? | Necrosis of localized tissue |
Ischemia means? | A temporary lack of blood to an organ or tissue |
Infusion means? | Administering of blood intravenously |
Biopsy? | The removal of a piece for diagnosis |
Respiratory system includes? | The upper and lower systems |
The entire breathing process involves? | Internal and external respiration |
When breathing the air is drawn into what cavity? | Nasal Cavity |
The pharynx tube does what? | Serves as a passageway for food and air |
What is posterior to the mouth | Oropharynx |
Air passes through the nasal cavity to? | The pharynx |
Palatine tonsils are also know as? | Tonsils |
The tonsils protect? | The opening of the respiratory tract |
Larynx is also known as? | Voice box |
What it responsible for? | Makes vocal sounds possible |
Trachea is also known as? | Wind pipe |
What is the trachea composed of? | Smooth muscle embedded with c shaped cartilage |
How many lobes does the right lung have? | 3 |
The left lung has how many lobes? | 2 |
What is the space between the lungs called ? | Mediastinum |
What does the mediastinum include? | The heart, aorta, esophagus, bronchi |
The pleura envelopes what? | The Lungs |
What is the large muscular partition that lies between the. He's and the abdominal? | Diaphragm |
COPD means | Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease |
3 disease that are considered COPD? | Asthma, bronchitis, and emphysema. |
Asthma produces what in the bronchial airway ? | Bronchospasms |
What causes asthma? | Irritants, allergens, pollution, stress, and exercise |
Chronic bronchitis is caused by? | Smoking, pollution |
What medication removes mucus? | Expectorants |
Emphysema is a disease that causes alveoli to lose what? | Elasticity |
What is influenza? | Viral respiratory infection |
What are symptoms of the flu? | Fever, chills, headache, general myalgia |
What should children avoid taking when they have the flu? | Aspirin |
What is aspirin linked to in children? | Reyes disease |
TB means? | Tuberculosis |
Bronchopneumonia may be caused by? | Bacteria, virus's, fungi, and chemicals |
Cystic fibrosis is what kind of disorder? | Hereditary |
What is produced when someone who has cystic fibrosis? | Viscous mucus |
What leads to lung cancer? | Smoking, air pollution |
Acidosis is? | High acidity body fluids |
Epistaxis means? | Nasal hemorrhages or nose bleeds |
Phlegm is? | Thick substance secreted by the mucus membrane |