Cardiac Cycle Quiz

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Which blood vessel carries blood to the heart from the body?
vena cava
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Which blood vessel carries blood to the heart from the lungs?
pulmonary vein
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What happens to the pressure in the ventricles as they are filled with blood?
pressure increases slightly
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What is the Aorta's job?
takes oxygenated blood away from the heart to the rest of the body
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What is the pulmonary artery's job?
takes deoxygenated blood away from the heart to the lungs
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What is the vena cava's job?
brings deoxygenated blood from the body to the heart
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What is the pulmonary vein's job?
brings oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart
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atrioventricular valves
prevent back flow of blood into the atria
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semi-lunar valves
prevent back flow of blood into the ventricles
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Definition of myogenic
it can contract and relax without receiving nerve signals, it is self contracting
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what is the 'Bundle of His'?
group of muscle fibres that conduct electrical activity to finer muscle fibres in the walls of right and left ventricles, called Purkyne Tissue
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Purkyne tissue
carries wave of electricle
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Which blood vessel carries blood to the heart from the lungs?

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pulmonary vein

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What happens to the pressure in the ventricles as they are filled with blood?

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Card 4

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What is the Aorta's job?

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Card 5

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What is the pulmonary artery's job?

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