Cardiac Terms

What prevents blood from flowing back into the atria when the ventricles contract?

• semilunar valves

• sinoatrial node

• atrioventricular node

• tricuspid and bicuspid valves

When blood leaves this chamber of the heart, it heads out to the body (not the lungs)

• left atrium

• right atrium

• left ventricle

• right ventricle

One of the body's largest blood vessels that transports blood from the body region below the diaphragm to the heart

• superior vena cava

• inferior vena cava

• pulmonary trunk

• pulmonary veins

When blood leaves this chamber of the heart, it heads to the lungs

• right atrium

• right ventricle

• left atrium

• left ventricle

This chamber of the heart receives oxygenated blood from the lungs

• right atrium

• right ventricle

• left atrium

• left ventricle

These carry blood towards the heart

• arteries

• veins

These carry blood away from the heart

• Arteries

• Veins

Blood traveling through the pulmonary circuit goes through the right side of the heart and out to the _______

• left side of the heart

• body

• lungs

• tricuspid valve

Blood traveling through the systemic circuit goes through the _____ side of the heart and out to the body

• right

• left

Hypertension is

• high blood pressure

• low blood pressure

• low blood oxygen

• high blood oxygen

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3