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| Pericardium is composed of what two parts? |
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| a fibrous portion and a serous portion |
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| What is the outer-most layer of the pericardium? |
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| What is the middle layer of the pericardium? |
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| What is the inner-most layer of the lining of the heart? |
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| The Serous pericardium consists of what two layers? |
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| What type of tissue is the endocardium made of? |
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| Which blood vessel returns blood back TO the heart? |
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| Which cavity of the heart has the thickest walls? |
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| valve that separates atrium from ventricle |
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| atrioventricular (AV) valve or cuspid valves |
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| Valve that separates the pumonary artery from the right ventricle |
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| pulmonary valve which is a semi-lunar valve |
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| Valve that separates the aorta and the left ventricle |
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| aortic valve which is a semi-lunar valve |
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| Blood clotting of the major coronary arteries results in what? |
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| Myocardial infarction (death of heart cells) |
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| An artery carries blood in which direction? |
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| What are the largest arteries in the body, which includes the aorta and some of it's major branches? |
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| What artery carries blood farther away from the heart to specific organs and areas of the body? |
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| Muscular artery aka distributing arteries |
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| What type of blood vessel is also called a "resistance vessel"? |
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| What are the smallest type of arteries? |
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| what is the short connecting vessel which connects a true arteriole to the proximal end? |
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| What type of regulatory valve is on the proximal end of a metarteriole? |
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| What type of regulatory valve is on the distal end of a metarteriole? |
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| What are the microscopic vessels which carry blood from arterioles to venules? |
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| What is blood flow through arterioles, venules and capillaries called? |
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| What is the name of the capillary that has a much larger lumen and more winding or toruous course than other capillaries? |
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| What type of capillary have continuous lining of endothelial cells with only small openings? |
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| The four types of arteries are; |
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| Elastic, muscular, arteriole, and metarteriole |
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| The three layers of arteries, from inside to out are; |
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| tunica intima, tunica media, and tunica externa |
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| The chordinae tendinae are associated with which structures? |
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| Aortic and pulmonary semilunar valve |
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| What is the term used to describe a collection of mechanisms that influence the active and changing dynamics of blood? |
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