MASTERBOOKS: Cardiovascular and Respiratory System

A normal ________ is about the size of a person’s fist.

The walls of the ventricles are made of ________ muscle than the atrial walls.

The pressure of the ________ inside the ventricles pushes them shut.

God designed the ________ circulation — a way for the heart to pump blood to itself.

Cardiac output is the product of two things: the heart rate (HR) and the ________ volume (SV).

One of the most common tests performed to detect coronary artery disease is called an exercise test, or a “________” test.

There are five primary types of blood vessels: ________, arterioles, veins, venules, and capillaries.

Pulse rate is recorded in ________ per minute.

When a person has a blood pressure that is chronically over 140/90 it is known as ________, commonly called “high blood pressure.”

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By some estimates, ________ percent of the world’s population has hypertension.