The cardiovascular system is the subject of these medical science flash cards for doctors and med students.
There are 28 flash cards in this set (5 pages to print.)
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1. Print out the cards.
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Sample flash cards in this set:
| Questions | Answers |
|---|---|
| cardiovascular | composed of heart & blood vessels, which circulate blood throughout body to bring blood into close proximity to every living cell |
| heart | pumps blood through the blood vessels, which include arteries, veins & capillaries |
| arteries | away from heart |
| veins | toward the heart |
| capillaries | micorscopic blood vessels located between arteries and veins |
| capillaries | composed of single layer of thin cells, allowing passage of nutrients, oxygen, and carbon dioxide |
| arteries | oxygenated |
| veins | deoxygenated |
| heart | fist sized, hollow muscular pump located in thoracic cavity |
| pericardial sac or pericardium | thick membrane that covers heart externally |
| epicardium or visceral pericardium | thinner membrane forms outer surface of heart |
| myocardium | thick outermost layer, composed of cardiac muscle, |
| endocardium | thin inner lining, lines each of the four heart chambers |
| atria | two thin-walled, receives incoming blood |
| ventricles | two thick-walled, push blood out of heart |
| right atrium | receives blood from two large veins known as vena cava and also from coronary sinus that drains heart |
| right venticle | receives blood and pumps it to lungs, where blood is oxygenated |
| left atrium | receives blood from lungs by way of four pulmonary veins |
| left ventricle | pumps blood to entire body except lungs |
| blood flow | blood flows through heart it moves from atria to the venticles |
| atrioventricular valves; | one way flow of blood through heart from atria to ventricles |
| two AV valves | mitral valve or bicuspid valve & tricuspid |
| mitral or bicuspid | left side |
| tricuspid | right side |
| semilunar valves | blood passes through this from ventricles; which mark junction between two ventricles and two major arteries |
| two major arteries | pulmonary & aorta |
| pulmonary | right side |
| aorta | left side |
