Cardiac Cycle

This text discusses pressures and flow; phases of the cardiac cycle; and heart sounds.

Topics

  • afterload
  • anastomosis
  • anterior cardiac veins
  • anterior interventricular artery
  • anterior interventricular sulcus
  • aortic valve
  • artificial pacemaker
  • atrial reflex
  • atrioventricular
  • AV node
  • atrioventricular bundle
  • atrioventricular bundle branches
  • atrioventricular septum
  • atrioventricular valves
  • atrium
  • auricle
  • autonomic tone
  • autorhythmicity
  • Bachmann’s bundle
  • Bainbridge reflex
  • baroreceptor reflex
  • bicuspid valve
  • bulbus cordis
  • bundle of His
  • cardiac cycle
  • cardiac notch
  • cardiac output
  • CO
  • cardiac plexus
  • cardiac reflexes
  • cardiac reserve
  • cardiac skeleton
  • cardiogenic area
  • cardiogenic cords
  • cardiomyocyte
  • chordae tendineae
  • circumflex artery
  • coronary arteries
  • coronary sinus
  • coronary sulcus
  • coronary veins
  • diastole
  • ejection fraction
  • electrocardiogram
  • ECG
  • end diastolic volume
  • EDV
  • end systolic volume
  • ESV
  • endocardial tubes
  • endocardium
  • endothelium
  • epicardial coronary arteries
  • epicardium
  • filling time
  • foramen ovale
  • fossa ovalis
  • Frank-Starling mechanism
  • great cardiac vein
  • heart block
  • heart bulge
  • heart rate
  • HR
  • heart sounds
  • hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
  • inferior vena cava
  • interatrial band
  • interatrial septum
  • intercalated disc
  • internodal pathways
  • interventricular septum
  • isovolumic contraction
  • isovolumic ventricular relaxation phase
  • left atrioventricular valve
  • marginal arteries
  • mesoderm
  • mesothelium
  • middle cardiac vein
  • mitral valve
  • moderator band
  • murmur
  • myocardial conducting cells
  • myocardial contractile cells
  • myocardium
  • negative inotropic factors
  • P wave
  • pacemaker
  • papillary muscle
  • pectinate muscles
  • pericardial cavity
  • pericardial sac
  • pericardium
  • positive inotropic factors
  • posterior cardiac vein
  • posterior interventricular artery
  • posterior interventricular sulcus
  • preload
  • prepotential depolarization
  • primitive atrium
  • primitive heart tube
  • primitive ventricle
  • pulmonary arteries
  • pulmonary capillaries
  • pulmonary circuit
  • pulmonary trunk
  • pulmonary valve
  • pulmonary veins
  • Purkinje fibers
  • QRS complex
  • right atrioventricular valve
  • semilunar valves
  • septum
  • septum primum
  • sinoatrial
  • SA node
  • sinus rhythm
  • sinus venosus
  • small cardiac vein
  • spontaneous depolarization
  • stroke volume
  • SV
  • sulcus
  • superior vena cava
  • systemic circuit
  • systole
  • T wave
  • target heart rate
  • trabeculae carneae
  • tricuspid valve
  • truncus arteriosus
  • valve
  • ventricle
  • ventricular ejection phase
  • atrial diastole
  • atrial systole
  • dub or second heart sound S2
  • heart sound
  • stethoscope placement
  • ventricular diastole
  • ventricular systole