Chapter 17 Vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Acute Coronary Syndrome | Conditions that can effect the heart in which the coronary arteries are narrowed or occulded |
Aorta | The major artery from the heart |
Artery | blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart |
Atria | The two upper chambers of the heart |
Automaticity | The ability of cells within the cardiac conduction system to generate a cardiac impulse of there own |
Blood Pressure | The force exerted by the blood on the interior walls of the blood vessels |
Capillary | Tiny blood vessel that connects the arteriole to a venule |
Cardiac compromise | reduce heart function caused by any of a variety of conditions, disease or injuries affecting the heart |
Cardiac Conduction System | The specialized contractile and conductive tissue of the heart that generates electrical impulses |
Circulatory System | blood vessels that supplies the heart with blood |
Coronary Arteries | Blood vessels that bring Oxygen and nutrients to and take away from the body. |
Heart | The muscular organ that contracts to force blood in the circulation through the body |
Nirtoglycerin | Medications that dilates the blood vessels (decrease blood pressure) |
Perfusion | The deliver5y of oxygen and other nutrients to the organs |
Pulmonary Artery | Artery that carryies deoxygenated blood from the lungs to the left ventricle |
Vein | Vessel that carries blood toward the heart |
Venae Cavae | Veins cary Oxygenated blood to the heart |
Ventricle | The two lower chamber of the heart |
Venule | The smallest branch of the veins |
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