Anatomy for the Cardiovascular System

What is the Superior Vena Cava?

• It separates the left ventricle from the right ventricle.
• It originates from small mounds of muscle tissue, the papillary muscles, which project inward from the walls of the ventricle.
• Are part of the network of superficial veins of the foot and leg. 
• One of the two major paths into which the veins from all parts of body converge to lead to the right atrium of the heart.

What is the Mitral Valve?

• Is a flap of heart wall on the anterior surface of the left atrium of the heart.
• The valve between the left atrium and the left ventricle of the heart.
• It separates the left ventricle from the right ventricle.
• It returns blood from the upper right lobe of the lung back to the heart.

What is the Left Ventrical?

• It allows blood to travel along the brachiocephalic vein back to the heart.
• It takes blood from the left side of the head and brain back to the heart from the subclavian vein.
• It is located in the bottom left portion of the heart below the left atrium, and separated by the mitral valve.
• Gets the majority of the blood from the cranium’s exterior and the face’s deeper portions.

The Pulmonary Valve be defined as...?

• The semilunar valve of the heart that lies between the right ventricle.
• A branch of the external carotid vein.
• Something in which provides oxygen-rich blood to the right side of the head and neck.
• As a semicircular fold of the lining membrane of the right atrium.

What is Coronary Artery Disease...?

• Is caused by one or more attacks of rheumatic fever, which does damage to the heart.
• A build up of plaque in the arteries supplying blood to the heart.
• A build up of plaque in the arteries supplying blood to the arms and legs.
• A  build up of plaque in the arteries that supply blood to the brain.

The Aorta is ...

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  A fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules.
• The largest vein in the human body.
• Located just to the left side of the body of the fourth lumbar vertebra, where the abdominal aorta divides into two arteries.
• The main artery of the body, supplying oxygenated blood to the circulatory system.

What describes the Right Ventricle?

• The chamber within the heart that is responsible for pumping oxygen-depleted blood to the lungs.
• It is located in the lower right portion of the heart below the right atrium.
• As deoxygenated blood flows into the right atrium, it passes through the tricuspid valve.
• All of the above.

What is the definition of Triscupid Valve?

• A flap or lid-like part of certain anthers.
• Air sacs in the lungs where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged.
• Situated at the opening of the right atrium of the heart into the right ventricle and that resembles the mitral valve in structure but consists of three triangular membranous flaps.
• Halting or controlling the flow of a liquid, gas, or other material through a passage.

What is an Aneurysm?

• Chest pain that occurs when diseased blood vessels restrict blood flow to the heart.
• Transmits messages among nerve cells and muscle cells.
• The area of the body between the bottom of the ribs and the top of the thighs.
• A sac-like protrusion from a blood vessel or the heart, resulting from a weakening of the vessel wall or heart muscle.

Ablation can be defined as...?

• A disease process that leads to the buildup of a waxy substance, called plaque, inside blood vessels.
•  A test that is combined with cardiac catheterization to visualize an artery or the arterial system after injection of a contrast dye.
• Elimination or removal.
• Relating to self. For example, autologous stem cells are those taken from the patient’s own body.