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        | cardiovascular system function |  | Definition 
 
        | supplying oxygen and nutrients to tissues and removing waste from them |  | 
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        | hollow, cone shaped; muscular pump;  14 cm long and 9 cm wide |  | 
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        | thoracic cavity; in the mediastinum under sternum; apex extends to the fifth intercoastal space |  | 
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        | encloses the heart; tough outer covering has connective fibrous tissue and inside is the epicardium |  | 
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        | surrounded by pericardium, delicate visceral pericardium; surrounds the heart;folds the  back to become the parietal pericardium at the base of the heart that lines itself; houses blood and lymph capillaries a;ong with coronary arteries |  | 
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        | potential space in between the parietal and visceral percardial filled with serous fluid |  | 
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        | middle layer of heart;cardiac muscle; thickest layer |  | 
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        | smooth and made of of connective tissue and epithilium; continuous with the endothelium of major vessels joining the heart; contains Purkinje fibers |  | 
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        | internal chambers of the heart |  | Definition 
 
        | two atria on top and two ventricles on bottom |  | 
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        | receive blood returning to the heart; have thin walls and ear-like auricles projecting from exterior |  | 
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        | pump blood to the body; right one only goes to lungs left to whole body |  | 
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        | divides a and v on either side |  | 
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        | atrioventricular valve (3) |  | Definition 
 
        | ensures one way blood flow; have cusps to which chordae tendinae attach; right=tricuspid left=mitral |  | 
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        | attached to papillary muscles in teh inner heart wall; contract during ventricular contraction to prevent back flow through the a-v valves |  | 
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        | vena cavas and coronary sinuses |  | Definition 
 
        | bring blood from body to atrium; blood is low in O, high in CO2 |  | 
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        | base of pulmonary trunk leading to lungs; prevents return of blood to right ventricle |  | 
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        | prevents backflow into left ventricle |  | 
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        | rings of dense connective tissue (2) |  | Definition 
 
        | surround pulmonary trunk and aorta to provide attachments fpr heart valves and fibers; prevent dilating of tissue |  | 
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        | low O blood-->vena cava/coronary sinus-->right atrium-->tricuspid valve-->right ventricle-->pulmony valve-->pulmonary trunk and arteries-->lungs for oxygen-->pulmonary veins-->left atrium-->mitral valve-->left ventricle-->aortic valve-->aorta-->body |  | 
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        | vibrations in heart tissues as blood rapidly changes velocity within the heart |  | 
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        | ventricles contract; a-v close |  | 
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        | ventricles relax; aortic and pulmonary valves close |  | 
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        | mass of merging fibers; atrial and ventricular |  | 
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        | force of blood against inner walls of blood vessels; rises and falls according to the cardiac cycle; determined by caridac output and periphrial resistance |  | 
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        | ventricular contraction; pressure at highest |  | 
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        | ventricle relaxation; pressure lowest |  | 
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        | surge of blood during ventricular contraction at certain points in the body |  | 
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        | influences of arterial pressure |  | Definition 
 
        | heart action, blood volume, resistance to flow, blood viscosity |  | 
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        | stroke volume and heart rate(caridiac output); direct with blood pressure |  | 
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        | directly proportionate with blood pressure, varies with age, size, gender |  | 
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        | friction between blood and walls of blood vessels; direct with blood pressure (sympathetic constriction) |  | 
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        | ease of flow, greater flow resistance higher blood pressure |  | 
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        | blood pressure fluctuation |  | Definition 
 
        | rises cardiac center of medulla oblongata sends parasympathetic impulses to slow it down and sympathetic to speed it up |  | 
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