Chapter 17: Heart Review Questions

Which heart chamber receives oxygenated blood from the lungs?

What is the period during the cardiac cycle when the ventricles are completely closed and blood volume in them remains constant as the ventricles contract?

Suppose a patient develops a myocardial infarction that disables the sinoatrial node. Would the heart still pump blood to the aorta and the pulmonary trunk?

The presence of an incompetent tricuspid valve would have the direct effect of causing ______.

Increasing end-diastolic and end-systolic volume will increase stroke volume. Increasing end-diastolic and end-systolic volume will increase stroke volume. True False

Which of the following does NOT deliver deoxygenated blood to the heart? -inferior vena cava -pulmonary veins -superior vena cava -coronary sinus

Hypercalcemia could cause ______.

In an ischemic heart, the affected cardiac muscle cells are likely to have an altered ______.

Besides cardiac muscle, what other tissue type possesses pacemaker cells?

Heart murmurs caused by a stenotic mitral valve ______.

Role of Chordae Tendenae (heart strings)

Blood enters the left and right coronary arteries directly from which vessel or chamber?

Which of these muscles is particularly associated with anchoring the right and left atrioventricular valves?

Which chamber of the heart sends oxygenated blood to the systemic circuit via the aorta?

What causes heart sounds?

what seperates the parietal and visceral pericardia?