Heart Structure and Function

A measure of cardiac activity usually expressed as the number of beats per minute.

• Heart rate

• Carotid Pulse

• Blood Pressure

• Radial pulse

Located by sliding your fingers alongside your jaw bone and down into the depression on the side of your neck.

• Pacemaker

• Heart rate

• Radial pulse

• Carotid pulse

Pressure exerted by the blood upon the walls of the blood vessels, especially arteries, usually measured by means of a sphygmomanometer and expressed in millimeters of mercury.

• Electrocardiogram

• Systole

• Diastole

• Blood pressure

A measurement of heart electrical activity.

• Sphygmomanometer

• Electrocardiogram

• Pacemaker

• Cardiac telemetry

Blood pressure that remains between heart contractions.

• Diastolic pressure

• Systolic pressure

• Hypertension

• Hypotention

What is the job of LDL?

• Take cholesterol to the brain

• Take cholesterol to the cells & liver

• Take cholesterol to the pancreas

• Take cholesterol to the blood

Which lipoprotein decreases your chances of heart disease?

• HDL
• LDL
• PDL
• BDL

The large arterial trunk that carries blood from the heart to be distributed by branch arteries through the body.

• Aorta

• Septum

• Atrium

• Pulmonary arteries

The largest vein in the human body;it returns blood to the right atrium from the lower body.

• Carotid artery

• Superior Vena Cava

• Inferior Vena Cava

• Pulmonary vein

A valve in the heart that guards the opening between the left atrium and the left ventricle; its alternative name is the bicuspid valve.

• Tricuspid valve

• Aortic valve

• Pulmonary valve

• Mitral Valve