- When blood pressure is 120/80 mm Hg; 80 indicates
Your answer:
systolic pressure
pulse rate
respiration rate
diastolic pressure
hemoglobin count
- The pacemaker of the heart is
Your answer:
Bundle of His
Purkinje fibers
SA node
conduction myofibers
AV node
- The valve betwen the right atrium and right ventricle is
Your answer:
mitral
pulmonary
aortic
bicuspid
tricuspid
- The combining form for vein is
Your answer:
angi/o
phleb/o
sphygm/o
thromb/o
vas/o
- The combining form athr/o means
Your answer:
artery
vessel
fatty plaque
hardening
vein
- Having incompetent valves in the veins leads to
Your answer:
infarction
varicose veins
hypotension
arteriosclerosis
phlebolith
- The wall between the heart chambers is the
Your answer:
septum
atrium
myocardium
ventricle
endocardium
- The incision of a vein to withdraw blood is
Your answer:
venolysis
venipuncture
phlebolith
phleboplasty
phlebocentesis
- A patent vessel is one that is
Your answer:
hardened
open
plaque filled
partially obstructed
occluded
- Antihypertensive medications are used to
Your answer:
lower blood pressure
relieve angina pectoris
lower cholesterol
remove clots
test cholesterol levels
- Diuretics are used to
Your answer:
expand blood vessels
regulate the heartbeat
lower cholesterol
promote excretion of urine
relieve chest pain
- The term for removal of a clot is
Your answer:
embolism
catheterization
thrombectomy
valvotomy
venisection
- Exchange of gasses in the lungs takes place betwen the alveoli and
Your answer:
capillaries
bronchioles
veins
arteries
lymphatics
- The combining form angi/o means
Your answer:
angina
aorta
pulse
oxygen
vessel
- The combining form vas/o means
Your answer:
fatty plaque
blood flow
plug
vessels
pressure
- Vessels that carry blood away from the heart are
Your answer:
capillaries
veins
lymphatics
venae cavae
arteries
- A blood vessel that contains valves is
Your answer:
capillary
vein
coronary artery
pulmonary artery
abdominal aorta
- The highest oxygen concentration is found in the blood of the
Your answer:
superior vena cava
pulmonary artery
right ventricle
coronary arteries
right atrium
- The coronary arteries supply blood to
Your answer:
lungs
brain
kidneys
myocardium
liver
- Blockage of a vessel is called
Your answer:
occlusion
infarction
anastomosis
patency
angina
- All of the following assist in returning blood to the heart except
Your answer:
skeletal muscle contraction
gravity
compression
respiratory activity
valves
- Which of the following represents the sequence of structures through which blood travels through the heart?
Your answer:
left atrium, right atrium, left ventricle, right ventricle
right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, left ventricle
right atrium,left atrium, right ventricle, left ventricle
right ventricle, left ventricle, right atrium, left atrium
left atrium, left ventricle, right atrium, right ventricle
- The sac containing the heart is called
Your answer:
epicardium
cardiac membrane
pericardium
coronary membrane
epicoronary membrane
- Regarding fetal circulation, most of the blood in the umbilical vein enters the inferior vena cava through the
Your answer:
foramen ovale
ductus arteriosus
systole
ventricle
ductus venosus
- Oxygenation of fetal blood occurs in the
Your answer:
placenta
chorion
amnion
fetal lung
umbilical cord
- The structures through which conduction impulses pass in order to cause the heart to contract in sequential order are
Your answer:
SA node, AV node, AV bundle, Purkinje fibers
AV node, SA node, AV bundle, purkinje fibers
AV bundle, AV node, SA node, Purkinje fibers
Purkinje fibers, SA node, AV node, AV bundle
Purkinje fibers, AV node, SA node, AV bundle
- Oxygen deficiency in surrounding tissues is
Your answer:
infarction
malnutrition
dystrophy
anemia
ischemia
- Suffocating chest pain associated with coronary artery disease is called
Your answer:
ischemia
hyperalgia
angina
angiodynia
pectorodynia
- The passage of a balloon catheter through the lumen of an occluded coronary vessel in order to compress plaque against the arterial wall is
Your answer:
bypass surgery
angioplasty
cardiac catheterization
cardioplasty
arterioplasty
- The most common cause of infective endocarditis is
Your answer:
viruses
bacteria
fungi
parasites
helminths
- Using antibiotics to ward off infections prior to minor surgeries such as tooth removal or root canal is called prophylactic treatment.
Your answer:
True
False
- The inability of a heart valve to close properly is called stenosis.
Your answer:
True
False
- An incompetent valve is one that fails to prevent the backflow of blood in a vein.
Your answer:
True
False
- The areas most commonly associated with varicose veins are the anus, esophagus, and legs.
Your answer:
True
False
- Most malignant tumors of the heart are those that originate in cardiac tissue.
Your answer:
True
False
- The cause of cardiomyopathy is impaired coronary circulation and ischemia.
Your answer:
True
False
- A coronary condition associated with the aging process is tetralogy of Fallot.
Your answer:
True
False
- Patent ductus arteriosus is the failure of the ductus arteriosus to close after birth.
Your answer:
True
False
- Doppler echocardiography assesses the speed of blood passing through different areas of the heart.
Your answer:
True
False
- ECGs trace the electrical excitation to different parts of the heart.
Your answer:
True
False
- The term that means platelet development is
Your answer:
myelopoiesis
thrombopoiesis
hemoglobin
heparin
fibrinogen
- The type of blood cell responsible for the immune response is
Your answer:
neutrophil
lymphocyte
thrombocyte
granulocyte
erthrocyte
- The term pruritus means
Your answer:
inflammation
clumping
itching
infection
coagulation
- Lymph originates from
Your answer:
mucous membranes
small intestine
spleen
blood plasma
bone marrow
- A major disorder characterized by a reduction in the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood is called
Your answer:
anemia
leukemia
hypotension
hypertension
polycythemia
- The suffix that means standing still is
Your answer:
-phoresis
-stasis
-poiesis
-emia
-blast
- Abnormal accumulation of fluid in the intercellular spaces is called
Your answer:
diversis
pallor
osmosis
edema
abscess
- Percentage of packed red cells in a whole blood sample is
Your answer:
differential count e
hemogram
RBC morphology
onospot
hematocrit
- The suffix -phoresis means
Your answer:
decrease
formation
attraction
protein formation
carried
- Phagocytosis is a function of which of the following cells:
Your answer:
macrocytes
erythrocytes
leukocytes
thrombocytes
reticulocytes
- Histamines and heparin are released by
Your answer:
monocytes
erythrocytes
macrophages
neutrophils
basophils
- The combining form sider/o means
Your answer:
net
protein
different
shape
iron
- Antibodies are produced by
Your answer:
basophils
megakaryocytes
plasma cells
thrombocytes
erthrocytes
- A decrease in the number of circulating RBCs is
Your answer:
poikilocytosis
anisocytosis
erythrocytosis
erythropenia
hypotension
- The liquid medium of blood is the
Your answer:
plasma
myeloid tissue
hemoglobin
heparin
fibrinogen
- The prefix iso- means
Your answer:
unequal
small
lacking
equal
varied
- The primary function of platelets is
Your answer:
phagcytosis
plasma formation
cellular immunity
antigen formation
blood clotting
- Any blood abnormality is called
Your answer:
autoimmune
hematocrit
hemopoiesis
hemostasis
dyscrasia
- Blood plasma minus fibrinogen is
Your answer:
serum
heparin
thromboplastin
cytoplasm
histamine
- Destruction of old red blood cells is a function of
Your answer:
bone marrow
spleen
tonsils
thymus
lymph nodes
- A stem cell is also called a
Your answer:
hemocyte
hematocyte
hemoblast
hemocytoblast
hematoblast
- The suffix meaning formation or production is
Your answer:
-phoresis
-poiesis
-poesis
-penia
-pnea
- The smalles formed elements found in blood are
Your answer:
neutrophils
basophils
monocytes
erythrocytes
thrombocytes
- The chief component of blood plasma is
Your answer:
water
plasma proteins
electrolytes
hormones
excretory products
- The definitive test for pernicious anemia is
Your answer:
Hodgkin's
monospot
Shilling
Epstein-Barr
AML
- One of the combining forms for nucleus is
Your answer:
morph/o
aden/o
kary/o
heter/o
hom/o
- Antihemophiliac factor (AHF) is also known as
Your answer:
Factor V
Factor VII
Factor VIII
hemostasis factor
bleaders factor
- A person with blood type A will have
Your answer:
A antibody in the plasma
A antigen in the plasma
B antibody in the plasma
A agglutin in the plasma
B agglutinogen on the erythrocytes
- A tranfusion prepared from the recipient's own blood is called
Your answer:
homologous
autologous
autotropic
homotropic
none of the above
- The combining form for bone marro is
Your answer:
my/o
meil/o
myel/o
may/o
mei/o
- Thromboplastin is either released by traumatized tissue or ruptured platelets.
Your answer:
True
False
- Fibrinogen is an insoluble plasma protein.
Your answer:
True
False
- An agglutinin is an antigen.
Your answer:
True
False
- Serology is the study of antigen/antibody reactions.
Your answer:
True
False
- A plasma sample lacks fibrinogen.
Your answer:
True
False
- Neutrophils engage in phagocytosis.
Your answer:
True
False
- T cells mature in the thymus gland.
Your answer:
True
False
- Pancytopenia is a decrease in RBCS, WBCS, and platelets.
Your answer:
True
False
- A reticulocyte is a mature erythrocyte.
Your answer:
True
False
- Sickle cell anemia is a type of poikilocytosis.
Your answer:
True
False