structure to function

• expansion and recoil of an artery during heart activity

  pulse
• pressure exerted by the blood against the blood vessel walls

  blood pressure
• factors related to blood pressure

  cardiac output, peripheral resistance
• event primarily responsible for peripheral resistance

  constriction of arterioles
• blood pressure during heart contraction


  systolic blood pressure
• site where blood pressure determinations are normally made

  over arteries
• points at the body surface where the pulse may be felt

  pressure points
• sounds heard over a blood vessel when the blood vessel is partially compressed


  sounds of korotkoff
• what helps control the valve movemnt?

  chorda tendinae
• what regulates blood flowing between the left atrium and ventricle?

  bicuspid valve
• what's the largest artery?

  aorta
• what is the contraction that causes blood to move away from the hear?

  ventricles
• what regulates blood flow between right atrium and ventricle?

  tricuspid valve
• what stimulate the ventricle to contract?

  pulmonary valve
• what's the smallest of the blood vessels?

  capillaries
• what is connected to the right ventricle?

  pulmonary trunk
• what transports blood back to the heart?

  veins
• what receive blood from veins?

  atria
• what transports blood away from the heart?

  Arteries
• what is the pacemaker of the hewart?

  SA node