Cardiovascular Terminology Quiz

What is the name of the valve between a atrium and a ventricle?

• Atrioventricular valve

• Arterial valve

• Semilunar valve

• Arteroventricular valve

A complete heartbeat consisting of contraction and relaxation of both atria and both ventricles

• Diapedesis

• Cardiac arrest

• Cardiac cycle

• Circulation

The process of blood clotting

• Conduction

• Thrombocytes

• Diapedesis

• Coagulation

Cardiac muscle cells; also called Purkinje fibers

• Conduction myofibers

• Diastole

• Systole

• Pulmonary artery

Diapedesis means which of the following:

• A stem cell in the bone marrow that rises

• The process by which WBC enter the tissue spaces outside the blood vessel

• The process of blood leaving the arteries and enter the tissues

• A connective tissue that covers and supports the heart

The relaxation phase of the cardiac cycle

• Systole

• System

• Dialysis

• Diastole

This formed element has the average life span of 120 days:

• Leukocyte

• Thrombocyte

• Erythrocyte

• Erthracyte

Which of the following is the definition of erythropoiesis:

• The process of red blood cell formation

• Contraction phase of the cardiac cycle

• The valve stem that goes through the heart

• The process of clotting blood

A hormone released by the kidney used to stimulate erythrocyte production:

• Prothrombin

• Monocytes

• Erythropoietin

• Fibrinolysis

Which of the following is a stem cell in the bone marrow from which the blood cells arise?

• Hematopoiesis

• Hemocytoblast

• Hemiostasis

• Homeostasis