Heart

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Amount of blood pumped out per beat
Stroke volume
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Amount of blood pumped out per minute
Cardiac output
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Heart rate lower than 60bpm as a result of long term training
Bradycardia
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Increase in thickness of ventricular walls as a result of long term training
Athletes heart
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The greater the venous return the greater the next contraction
Starlings law
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When adrenaline is released prior to exercise and causes the heart rate to increase
Anticipatory rise
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When the muscles contract and squeeze against the veins to force blood back to the heart
Muscle pump
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This fires quickly to make the heart beat faster
SAnode
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These are at the end of the conduction system and force the ventricles to contract
Purkinje fibres
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These detect changes in chemicals in the blood
chemoreceptors
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This neural stimulation causes the heart rate to increase
sympathetic
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The amount of blood forced out of the left ventricle at each contraction
Ejection fraction
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One way in which carbon dioxide is transported in the blood
Blood plasma
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One of the characteristics of capilleries
precapillary sphincters
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Card 2

Front

Amount of blood pumped out per minute

Back

Cardiac output

Card 3

Front

Heart rate lower than 60bpm as a result of long term training

Back

Preview of the front of card 3

Card 4

Front

Increase in thickness of ventricular walls as a result of long term training

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

The greater the venous return the greater the next contraction

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
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