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Chapter 17 vocab

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Acute Coronary Syndrome   Conditions that can effect the heart in which the coronary arteries are narrowed or occulded  
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Aorta   The major artery from the heart  
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Artery   blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart  
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Atria   The two upper chambers of the heart  
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Automaticity   The ability of cells within the cardiac conduction system to generate a cardiac impulse of there own  
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Blood Pressure   The force exerted by the blood on the interior walls of the blood vessels  
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Capillary   Tiny blood vessel that connects the arteriole to a venule  
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Cardiac compromise   reduce heart function caused by any of a variety of conditions, disease or injuries affecting the heart  
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Cardiac Conduction System   The specialized contractile and conductive tissue of the heart that generates electrical impulses  
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Circulatory System   blood vessels that supplies the heart with blood  
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Coronary Arteries   Blood vessels that bring Oxygen and nutrients to and take away from the body.  
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Heart   The muscular organ that contracts to force blood in the circulation through the body  
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Nirtoglycerin   Medications that dilates the blood vessels (decrease blood pressure)  
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Perfusion   The deliver5y of oxygen and other nutrients to the organs  
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Pulmonary Artery   Artery that carryies deoxygenated blood from the lungs to the left ventricle  
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Vein   Vessel that carries blood toward the heart  
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Venae Cavae   Veins cary Oxygenated blood to the heart  
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Ventricle   The two lower chamber of the heart  
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Venule   The smallest branch of the veins  
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