Name: Chapter 18: Instructor Test Items: Multiple-Choice Questions

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Normal heart sounds are caused by which of the following events?
Selected closure of the heart
Answer: valves
Correct closure of the heart
Answer: valves
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Which of the events below does not occur when the semilunar valves are
open?
Correct Ventricles are in
Answer: diastole.
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Hemorrhage with a large loss of blood causes ________.
Selected a lowering of blood pressure due to change in
Answer: cardiac output
Correct a lowering of blood pressure due to change in
Answer: cardiac output
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The left ventricular wall of the heart is thicker than the right wall in order
to ________.
Selected pump blood with greater
Answer: pressure
Correct pump blood with greater
Answer: pressure
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Damage to the ________ is referred to as heart block.
Selected AV
Answer: node
Correct AV
Answer: node
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The P wave of a normal electrocardiogram indicates ________.
 Selected atrial
Answer: depolarization
Correct atrial
Answer: depolarization
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Blood within the pulmonary veins returns to the ________.
Selected left
Answer: atrium
Correct left
Answer: atrium
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Small muscle masses attached to the chordae tendineae are the ________.
Selected papillary
Answer: muscles
Correct papillary
Answer: muscles
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The term for pain associated with deficient blood delivery to the heart
that may be caused by the transient spasm of coronary arteries is
________.
Selected angina
Answer: pectoris
Correct angina
Answer: pectoris
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To auscultate the aortic semilunar valve, you would place your
stethoscope in the ________.
Selected second intercostal space to the right of
Answer: the sternum
Correct second intercostal space to the right of
Answer: the sternum
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The source of blood carried to capillaries in the myocardium would be
the ________.
 Correct coronary
Answer: arteries
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The fact that the left ventricle of the heart is thicker than the right
ventricle reveals that it ________.
Correct pumps blood against a greater
Answer: resistance
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Which of the following factors does not influence heart rate?
Selected skin
Answer: color
Correct skin
Answer: color
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Which of the following is not an age-related change affecting the heart?
Selected thinning of the valve
Answer: flaps
Correct thinning of the valve
Answer: flaps
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If cardiac muscle is deprived of its normal blood supply, damage would
primarily result from ________.
Selected decreased delivery of
Answer: oxygen
Correct decreased delivery of
Answer: oxygen
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If the length of the absolute refractory period in cardiac muscle cells was
the same as it is for skeletal muscle cells ________.
Selected tetanic contractions might occur, which would stop the
Answer: heart's pumping action
Correct tetanic contractions might occur, which would stop the
Answer: heart's pumping action
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 Norepinephrine acts on the heart by ________.
Selected causing threshold to be reached
Answer: more quickly
Correct causing threshold to be reached
Answer: more quickly
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If the vagal nerves to the heart were cut, the result would be that
________.
Selected the heart rate would increase by about 25 beats
Answer: per minute
Correct the heart rate would increase by about 25 beats
Answer: per minute
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Foramen ovale ________.
Selected connects the two atria in the
Answer: fetal heart
Correct connects the two atria in the
Answer: fetal heart
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Which vessel of the heart receives blood during right ventricular systole?
Selected pulmonary
Answer: trunk
Correct pulmonary
Answer: trunk
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Which of these vessels receives blood during ventricular systole?
Correct both the aorta and
Answer: pulmonary trunk
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Which of the following is not part of the conduction system of the heart?
Selected AV
Answer: valve
Correct AV
Answer: valve
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The tricuspid valve is closed ________.
Selected when the ventricle is in
Answer: systole
Correct when the ventricle is in
Answer: systole
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When viewing a dissected heart, it is easy to visually discern the right
and left ventricles by ________.
Selected noticing the thickness of the
Answer: ventricle walls
Correct noticing the thickness of the
Answer: ventricle walls
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Select the correct statement about the heart valves.
Selected The AV valves are supported by chordae tendineae so that
Answer: regurgitation of blood into the atria during ventricular
contraction does not occur.
Correct The AV valves are supported by chordae tendineae so that
Answer: regurgitation of blood into the atria during ventricular
contraction does not occur.
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Select the correct statement about the function of myocardial cells.
Correct The entire heart contracts as a unit or it does not
Answer: contract at all.
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Select the correct statement about the structure of the heart wall.
Selected The myocardium is the layer of the heart that
Answer: actually contracts.
Correct The myocardium is the layer of the heart that
Answer: actually contracts.
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Compared to skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle ________.
Selected has gap junctions that allow it to act as a
 Answer: functional syncytium
Correct has gap junctions that allow it to act as a
Answer: functional syncytium
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During the period of ventricular filling ________.
Selected blood flows passively through the atria and the open AV
Answer: valves into the ventricles
Correct blood flows passively through the atria and the open AV
Answer: valves into the ventricles
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The second heart sound is heard during which phase of the cardiac
cycle?
Selected isovolumetric
Answer: relaxation
Correct isovolumetric
Answer: relaxation
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The time of day most hazardous for heart attacks is ________.
Selected mornin
Answer: g
Correct mornin
Answer: g
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If we were able to artificially alter the membrane permeability of
pacemaker cells so that sodium influx is more rapid, ________.
Selected threshold is reached more quickly and heart rate
Answer: would increase
Correct threshold is reached more quickly and heart rate
Answer: would increase
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Select the correct statement about cardiac output.
Correct A slow heart rate increases end diastolic volume, stroke
Answer: volume, and force of contraction.
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During contraction of heart muscle cells ________.
Correct some calcium enters the cell from the extracellular space
Answer: and triggers the release of larger amounts of calcium from
intracellular stores
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Isovolumetric contraction ________.
Selected refers to the short period during ventricular systole when
Answer: the ventricles are completely closed chambers
Correct refers to the short period during ventricular systole when
Answer: the ventricles are completely closed chambers
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Commotio cordis is heart failure due to a ________.
Selected relatively mild blow to the chest that occurs during a
Answer: vulnerable interval (2 ms) when the heart is repolarizing
Correct relatively mild blow to the chest that occurs during a
Answer: vulnerable interval (2 ms) when the heart is repolarizing