TheCardiovascular/Circulatory System

Procedure that opens a partially blocked heart?

• Balloon angioplasty
• Coronary bypass
• Defibrillation
• Endocardiogram

Foreign object circulating in the blood?

• Erythrocyte
• Aneurysm
• Embolus
• Leukocyte

Fatty substance that builds up on the walls of the arteries?

• Capillaries
• Phlebitis
• Hemostasis
• Cholesterol

Pounding, racing heart?

• Palpation
• Palpitation
• Depolarization
• Repolarization

Balloon-like enlargement of an artery?

• Cardiorrhexis
• Embolism
• Aneurysm
• Arteritis

The __________receive blood that is returning to the heart?

• Aorta
• Atria
• Ventricles
• Vena cava

During diastole the heart muscle _________?

• Contracts
• Relaxes
• Activates
• Depolarizes

The QRS complex (on the ECG) represents _________?

• Ventricular depolarization
• Atrial depolarization
• Atrial repolarization
  Atrial relaxation
• Ventricular relaxation

The left ventricle would be considered part of this circuit?

• Pulmonary
• Axial
• Systemic
• Appendicular

The word pulmonary is most closely associated with?

• Arteries
• Heart
• Lungs
• Veins