Exam 10

A devious dairy farmer decides to increase milk sales by tainting the water supply with an additive that causes calcium deficiency. Which is a correct statement about the actions of this additive?

Increasing the end systolic volume a little will ___ the stroke volume and the ___ will remain the same.

Which is a correct match of a vessel with one of its traits?

Which is a correct component of cardiac muscle contraction?

The volume of blood in the heart is the largest during the ___ phase when the ventricles are ___.

Which of the following pairs has a direct relationship in the first one's impact on the second one?

Buckeye Chuck was surprised that his friend Peter Cottontail visited him on Monday afternoon. He asked him how he was able to hide all of those eggs so quickly. Peter told him that he takes a special compound called Hoppolin that increases the convective flow as it moves within the blood. Since Peter's heart is like a human heart, which is a correct pairing of heart parts where Hoppolin would pass the first one and then immediately pass the second part?

During Dr. Brutus Buckeye's latest Emergency Department shift, he encounters a patient with heightened sensitivity to all stimuli and abnormally quick reflexes. He also determines that her bones are weakened. Which correct statement about her condition did the doctor tell her?

Which of the following does NOT participate in forming connections between cardiac cells?

The Na'vi are a tribe of giant blue aliens from the planet Pandora. They hunt with poisonous darts that negatively impact heart function. Scientists researching this toxin determine that the impacted heart will have a normal P-wave and normal QRS complex but no audible heart sounds. Which is a correct statement that the centrists made about this toxin?

Instead of watching the Final for March Madness, the demented duck fan decided to watch the football National Championship Game again. His heart stopped when the result turned out to be the same. Luckily, via electric shocks, the paramedics were able to restart his heart. During the time that it was stopped, which is a correct statement about his heart?

The pulmonary artery is to ___ as the pulmonary vein is to ___.

To ___ heart rate, our body must ___ parasympathetic actions at the ___ node.

A patient is observed to have an increase in her end systolic volume and a constant cardiac output. Which of the following could have occurred as a single event during this time (i.e., all other factors would be held constant)?

Diffusion is to ___ as convention is to ___.

Alex, who has apparently not become more cautious in his exploration of alien worlds, was again bitten by a venous critter. His heart rate immediately slowed. Which is a correct statement about how the venom might work?

In cardiac muscle, calcium enters the cell via ___ and exits the cell via ___.

While at Hang Over Easy last week, as per usual, your TAs got into a discussion of physiology. This time they focused on the physiology of the cardiovascular system. Which correct statement was said by one of them?