Topic 9: Cardiovascular System 2
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- What is the location of the heart?
- What forms the apex of the heart?
- What is the base of the heart?
- What surrounds and protects the heart?
- What are the two parts of the pericardium?
- What is the outer layer of the pericardium made of?
- What does the serous pericardium consist of?
- What is the acronym to remember the layers of the pericardium?
- What are the three layers of the heart wall?
- What is the composition of the epicardium?
- What constitutes the bulk of the heart?
- What lines the inside of the myocardium?
- What type of muscle tissue is myocardium?
- How are cardiac muscle fibers arranged?
- What connects cardiac muscle fibers?
- What do gap junctions allow in cardiac muscle fibers?
- How many networks do cardiac muscle fibers form?
- Why is the myocardium in the left ventricle thicker?
- How many chambers does the heart have?
- What are the two upper chambers of the heart called?
- What are the two lower chambers of the heart called?
- What separates the right and left atrium?
- What is the fossa ovalis?
- What closes soon after birth?
- What separates the right ventricle from the left ventricle?
- What does the right atrium receive?
- Through which veins does the right atrium receive blood?
- What does the right ventricle do with deoxygenated blood?
- What do the pulmonary arteries do?
- Where does oxygenated blood enter the heart?
- How many pulmonary veins deliver blood to the left atrium?
- What does the left ventricle do with oxygenated blood?
- Where does oxygenated blood go from the ascending aorta?
- What prevents blood from flowing backward in the heart?
- What are the atrioventricular (AV) valves?
- What is the tricuspid valve?
- What connects the tricuspid valve to the papillary muscles?
- What is the bicuspid valve also known as?
- What must happen for blood to pass from an atrium to a ventricle?
- What are the semilunar valves?