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Blood and Lymph systems!
All about blood and the lymph systems in including veins and arteries
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Anatomy
Undergraduate 3
06/19/2010

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tachycardia
Definition
increased heart rate
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Ectopic focus
Definition
false impulse from elsewhere in the heart
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bradoicardia
Definition
heart rate below normal
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arrhythmias
Definition
irregular heart rythms
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fibrillation
Definition
rapid irregular contractions
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ANS
Definition
modifies heart rate
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Cardiac centers are located in
Definition
the medulla oblongota
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Parasympathetic
Sympathetic
Definition
decreases
increases
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P wave indicates
Definition
atrial contraction
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QRS wave indicates
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ventricular contraction
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T wave indicates
Definition
ventricular relaxation
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Main arteries of the heart
Definition
Right and Left coronary arteries
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Angina pectoris
Definition
cells are weakened by lack of oxygen
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blood flows from the____ to the ____
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atrium, ventricles
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valves open towards ____
semilunar valves open towards____
Definition
ventricles, blood vessels
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Arteries
Definition
carry blood away from the heart
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Veins
Definition
carry blood towards the heart
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Elastic
Muscular
Definition
conducting
distributing
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Arterioles
Definition
smallest arteries lead to capillary beds
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Venules
Definition
very porus, form when capillary beds unite
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Capillary
Definition
single layer of endothelial cells sit on the basement membrane formed by connective tissue
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Fenestrated capillaries
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function in absorption
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Sinusoidal capillaries
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allow large molecules and blood cells to pass
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capillary beds
Definition
networks of capillaries that form microcirculation between arterioles and venules
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systolic pressure
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pressure exerted during ventricular contraction
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diastolic pressure
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lowest level of arteriol pressure
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pulse pressure
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difference between systolic and diastolic pressure
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mean arteriol pressure
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pressure that propels the blood to tissue
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locations of baroreceptors and chemoreceptors
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carotoid sinus
aortic arch
large thoracic
neck arteries
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receptors moniter changes in...
Definition
reflex arcs
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higher brain centers that modify BP
Definition
cortex
hypothalamus
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