Anatomy and Physiology Chapter 15-
Cardiovascular System Questions & Detailed
Answers
What is the role of a functional cardiovascular system - ANS supplying oxygen and
nutrients to tissues and removing wastes from them
The ____ is the strongest muscle in the body - ANS heart
What is the right side of the heart responsible for? - ANS pumping blood into your
lungs and oxygenating it
What is the left side of the heart responsible for? - ANS distributing oxygenated
blood throughout the body
The heart is actually a ___-barreled, __-chambered pumper - ANS 2 ; 4
The two sides of the heart (do/do not) work independently - ANS do not
What causes the lubb dubb sounds of the heart - ANS the closing of the tricuspid
and mitral valves and semilunar valves
Where is the heart located? - ANS underneath the mediastinum
, a hollow, cone-shaped, muscular pump located within the mediastinum of the
thorax and resting upon the diaphragm - ANS heart
the outer most layer of the covering of the heart - ANS fibrous pericardium
a double layer that covers the heart and turns back upon itself to form another
layer of the heart's covering - ANS visceral pericardium
covering of the heart that is formed by the folding of the visceral pericardium -
ANS parietal pericardium
covering of the heart made of tough, white fibrous connective tissue - ANS
pericardium
space between the parietal and visceral layers - ANS pericardial cavity
serous fluid secreted by the pericardial membranes that reduces friction between
the pericardial membranes as the heart moves inside - ANS pericardial fluid
outer covering of the walls of the heart; protective layer; consists of connective
tissue covered by epithelium, blood, and lymph capillaries, nerve fibers, some fat,
and coronary arteries and veins which provide blood flow through the middle layer
- ANS epicardium
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