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NREMT AEMT Heart Anatomy — practice questions

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The heart sits between the lungs in the thoracic space known as the:Read the answer and worked solution →The human heart contains chambers numbering:Read the answer and worked solution →Deoxygenated blood is pumped into the pulmonary trunk by the:Read the answer and worked solution →Oxygen-rich blood returns to the left atrium through veins numbering:Read the answer and worked solution →The membrane surrounding the heart and defining its cavity is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The heart wall is composed of layers numbering:Read the answer and worked solution →The middle and thickest layer of the heart wall, made of cardiac muscle, is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The muscular wall of the left ventricle compared with the right is:Read the answer and worked solution →Both ventricles pump the same volume, but the left must generate greater:Read the answer and worked solution →The innermost layer lining the heart chambers is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The wall dividing the two lower chambers of the heart is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Blood passes from the right atrium into the right ventricle through the:Read the answer and worked solution →Each valve flap is anchored by strands of connective tissue called chordae:Read the answer and worked solution →The valve between the left atrium and left ventricle, with two cusps, is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The valve at the base of the aorta preventing backflow has flaps numbering:Read the answer and worked solution →The major pumping chamber for the systemic circuit is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Heart valves exist to make blood flow through the heart in a way that is:Read the answer and worked solution →Normal cardiac rhythm is established by the node named:Read the answer and worked solution →The conduction pathway leaving the AV node through the septum is the bundle of:Read the answer and worked solution →Fibres spreading the impulse to ventricular contractile cells are the:Read the answer and worked solution →An interruption in the normal conduction pathway of the heart is called a heart:Read the answer and worked solution →Septal defects in the heart are commonly first detected using a stethoscope, a method called:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the heart valvesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the conduction partsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the cardiac gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the heart wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Right or left heartRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the heart wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Heart bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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The heart sits between the lungs in the thoracic space known as the:

  1. Mediastinum
  2. Metatarsal
  3. Metacarpal
  4. Mesentery
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Correct answer: A. Mediastinum

1. The space lies medially, between the two lungs. 2. It holds the heart and the great vessels. 3. That space is the mediastinum. _Source: OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology 2e, Chapter 19, The Cardiovascular System: The Heart._

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The human heart contains chambers numbering:

  1. 6
  2. 4
  3. 2
  4. 3
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Correct answer: B. 4

1. Each side has one upper chamber and one lower chamber. 2. There are two sides in all. 3. So the heart has 4 chambers. _Source: OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology 2e, Chapter 19, The Cardiovascular System: The Heart._

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Deoxygenated blood is pumped into the pulmonary trunk by the:

  1. Right ventricle
  2. Right vestibule
  3. Right ventricule
  4. Right vertebra
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Correct answer: A. Right ventricle

1. The blood is heading for the lungs to pick up oxygen. 2. It is pushed there by a lower chamber on the right. 3. That chamber is the right ventricle. _Source: OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology 2e, Chapter 19, The Cardiovascular System: The Heart._

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