QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
●● Wave forms displayed on a screen is called?.
Answer: Electrocardiogram
●● The breast bone is referred to as?.
Answer: The sternum
●● The pericardio sac that surrounds the heart wall is?.
Answer: A tough fibrous outer layer called the visceral pericardium and
inner thin transparent lining called the fibrous pericardium.
●● What are the three layers of the heart wall?.
Answer: Epicardium (outer), Myocardium (middle), and Endocardium
(inner).
●● The atrioventricular valve between the left atrium and left ventricle
is?.
Answer: The mitral valve
,●● The wall that separates the two superior chambers of the heart is
called?.
Answer: Interatrial septum
●● The heart valves that separates the atria from the ventricles are
called?.
Answer: Atrioventricular valves
●● The skeleton of the heart?.
Answer: separates the atria from the ventricles
●● The heart receives most of its own blood supply via the.
Answer: coronary arteries
●● Regulation of the heart rate, speed of electrical conduction, and
strength of contraction are influenced by the brain via the?.
Answer: Central nervous system
●● The cardiac accelerator center is?.
Answer: Part of the sympathetic nervous system
●● The most muscular chamber of the heart that forces blood through
the aortic valve is the?.
, Answer: left ventricle (power house)
●● During depolarization, what happens?.
Answer: Impulses are generated and transmitted when positively
charged ions move inside cells causing the interior to become positively
charged.
●● Blood return to the heart from the lungs via 4 blood vessels are
named?.
Answer: Pulmonary veins
●● Blood travels to the lungs where carbon dioxide is unloaded and
oxygen is loaded. The blood vessels that carry the blood from the heart
the lungs are?.
Answer: Pulmonary arteries
●● During which phase of the cardiac cycle do the coronary arteries
fill?.
Answer: Early systole (contracting)
●● How much of the blood coming into the ventricles flows passively
through the atria?.
Answer: 70% or 80%