BIOL 2404 Heart and Vessels Worksheet
Each worksheet is worth 25 points total. Point values are listed for each question.
Only answers with corresponding numbers are to be submitted as an email attachment in
a MS Word document. See calendar for due date.
Anatomy Section 10 points total
Heart
(0.5 points each)
Identify the following
__________1. visceral pericardium
__________2. superior heart chambers
__________3. lines the heart chambers
__________4. forms most of the heart wall, made of cardiac muscle
__________5. inferior heart chambers
__________6. ear like extensions of the upper heart chambers
7. Name two histological characteristics of cardiac muscle.
8. , 9. 10. Trace the pathway of blood for the pulmonary circuit.
Vessels
(0. 5 points each)
Identify the following
__________11. vessel that supplies most of the small intestine
__________12. major artery serving the upper arm
__________13. supplies blood to the kidney
__________14. longest vein in the body, it is also a superficial vein
__________15. blood supply to the heart muscle itself
__________16. blood supply from the brain to the heart
17. define artery
18. define vein
19. define capillary
20. Name the tunic found in all types of blood vessels
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Physiology Section 10 points total
Heart
(0.5 points each)
21. Give the function of the intercalated discs.
22. Give the function of heart valves.
23. Give the function of the pericardial sac.
24. Give the function of chordae tendonae.
25. Define cardiac cycle.
26. Define cardiac output.
27. Name two components of the cardiac conduction system.
28. Explain the two sets of heart sounds heard on auscultation.
29. Name and define two wave forms seen on a Lead II ECG.
30. What is the difference between systole and diastole?
Vessels
(0.5 points each)
31. Which type of vessel depends on elasticity to propel blood along ?
32. Which type of vessel depends on the respiratory and muscular pump?
33., 34. Explain the hepatic portal system.
35., 36. Explain the circle of Willis
37. Define blood pressure
38. Define pulse
39. Name a fetal cardiac bypass structure and what it is bypassing.
40. Define stroke volume
Medical Terminology Section 3 points total
41. hypertension
42. cardiomyopathy
43. arteriosclerosis
44. arrhythmia
45. angiography
46. valvular endocarditis
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Essay Section 2 points total
47. Can the heart function with leaky valves?
48. Why might a thrombus in the anterior descending branch of the left coronary artery
cause sudden death?
49. What is the purpose of an arterial anastomoses?
50. What is an aneurysm?