Medical Interpreter Exam Questions With
Accurate Answers
Cardiovascular System-Answer moves the blood within our bodies: Blood carries food
and oxygen that our bodies need to keep going. It also carries waste materials produced
by our bodies and helps to keep our body temperatures stable.
Heart - Answer a muscle that is at the center of the circulatory system, it keeps the
blood moving at all times
Correct and left Auricles - To answer one part at the top takes in the blood
Right and Left Ventricles - Answer one part at the bottom to pump it out
Blood vessels - Answer 1. arteries
2. capillaries
3. veins
Arteries - Answer carry blood away from the heart (high in oxygen, Red)
Capillaries - Answer very tiny, thin walled blood vessels. All parts of the body contain
capillaries: Nutrients and oxygen move through the capillary walls into the body cells.
Waste products and carbon dioxide move from the cells into the blood.
Veins - Answer take blood from the capillaries and carry it back to the heart. (low in
oxygen, Blue)
, Valves - Answer veins have valves, aka doors, that allow the blood to go one direction
Aorta - Answer the largest artery that carries blood away from the heart to other
arteries throughout the body
Pulmonary Artery - Answer an artery that carries blood away from the heart to the lungs
Pulmonary Veins - Answer return blood from the lungs to the heart
Superior Vena Cava - Brings blood from the head and the shoulders to the heart
Inferior Vena Cava - Brings blood from the abdomen and lower part of the body heart.
Normal Blood Pressure - is the pressure range for a healthy young adult is about 120
over 80
Systolic Pressure - is the upper number created each time the heart beats
Diastolic Pressure - Answer lower number created each time the heart relaxes between
beats
Blood - Answer Made up of Blood cells and plasma(fluid)
Red blood cells - Answer carry oxygen from the lungs to the body by hemoglobin
substance in the red cell and the waste product of carbon dioxide from the body to the
lungs
White Blood cells - Answer Fight infections by destroying bacteria and making
antibodies
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