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Which of these muscles is an extensor of the neck?A) External oblique B) SternocleidomastoidC) Splenius capitisD) iliocostalisE) Latissimus dorsi
What vessels are classified as blood reservoirs because they store most of the blood in the body?
On its way back to the atria, blood flows in large vessels called ______.
Place the following vessels in order from the largest (at the top) to the smallest.
The rise and fall of blood _______ in the heart chambers is the cause of the opening and closing of heart valves.
What is the name of the enlarged fibers that conduct impulses from the bundle branches to distant regions of the ventricular myocardium?
Microscopic vessels that are continuations of capillaries and merge to eventually form veins are called ______.
The smallest arteries are called _______.
Which statement accurately describes the development of pressure in a capillary network?
Put the following layers of arterial walls in order from superficial (at the top) to deep.
The group of autorhythmic cells in the interatrial septum of the heart that relays excitation from the atria to the ventricles is known as the ______.
The ________ _______ is an enlarged vein on the posterior surface of the heart that collects deoxygenated blood that has supplied the heart tissue and empties into the right atrium.
The ______ ______ make up the subendocardial conducting network and conduct impulses to distant regions of the ventricular myocardium.
Oxygenated blood is leaving the heart. List the vessels in the order in which blood passes through them.
The opening and closing of the heart valves is associated with ______.
Blood passes from the left ______ through the mitral valve into the left _______, which then pushes blood out to a large vessel, the ______.
The cardiac center is located in the pons.
The portion of the cardiac conduction system located in the right atrium near the opening of the superior vena cava is the ________ _______ .
Microscopic, thin-walled vessels that connect the smallest arterioles to the smallest venules are called _______.
The tricuspid valve separates the _______ atrium and ventricle, while the bicuspid valve separates the ______ atrium and ventricle.