A&P 2 Straighterline Test Questions with Correct Answers (Grade
A+)
Question 1: How is the left pulmonary surface of the heart formed?
Answer: left ventricle
Question 2: Dextrocardia?
Answer: apex of the heart faces to the right instead of the left
Question 3: Isolated dextrocardia affects?
Answer: only the heart
Question 4: Situs inversus totalis?
Answer: Complete thoracis and abdominal organ reversal from RT to
LT.
Question 5: Pericardium definition?
Answer: dense, fibrous membrane that surrounds and protects the
heart and the beginning of the great vessels
Question 6: Pericardium role?
Answer: confines the heart to its position in the mediastinum
allowing for vigorous movement and contraction within it
Question 7: Layers of the pericardium?
Answer: fibrous and serous pericardium, pericardial cavity
Question 8: What pericardial layer is attached to the central tendon of the diaphragm?
Answer: fibrous
Question 9: What makes up the serous pericardial layer?
Answer: parietal (cavity lining) layer, and visceral (organ lining)
layer
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, Question 10: What is the superficial pericardial layer?
Answer: fibrous pericardium
Question 11: What is the fibrous pericardium composed of?
Answer: tough, inelastic, dense tissue
Question 12: What does fusion of the fibrous pericardium with the parietal (cavity lining) layer of
serous pericardium increase?
Answer: tensile strength
Question 13: "Open end"?
Answer: fibrous pericardium
Question 14: What is the open end in fibrous pericardium fused to?
Answer: connective tissues of great vessels entering/exiting the
heart. continuous with the central tendon of the diaphragm
Question 15: What are the great vessels?
Answer: aorta, pulmonary trunk, inferior/superior vena cavae
Question 16: Double layer membrane?
Answer: serous pericardium
Question 17: What is the outer layer of the serous pericardium fused to fibrous pericardium?
Answer: parietal (cavity lining) layer
Question 18: What serous pericardium layer adheres tightly to the heart surface?
Answer: visceral layer (organ lining) (epicardium)
Question 19: What is the space between the visceral and parietal layers of the serous pericardium?
Answer: pericardial cavity
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A+)
Question 1: How is the left pulmonary surface of the heart formed?
Answer: left ventricle
Question 2: Dextrocardia?
Answer: apex of the heart faces to the right instead of the left
Question 3: Isolated dextrocardia affects?
Answer: only the heart
Question 4: Situs inversus totalis?
Answer: Complete thoracis and abdominal organ reversal from RT to
LT.
Question 5: Pericardium definition?
Answer: dense, fibrous membrane that surrounds and protects the
heart and the beginning of the great vessels
Question 6: Pericardium role?
Answer: confines the heart to its position in the mediastinum
allowing for vigorous movement and contraction within it
Question 7: Layers of the pericardium?
Answer: fibrous and serous pericardium, pericardial cavity
Question 8: What pericardial layer is attached to the central tendon of the diaphragm?
Answer: fibrous
Question 9: What makes up the serous pericardial layer?
Answer: parietal (cavity lining) layer, and visceral (organ lining)
layer
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, Question 10: What is the superficial pericardial layer?
Answer: fibrous pericardium
Question 11: What is the fibrous pericardium composed of?
Answer: tough, inelastic, dense tissue
Question 12: What does fusion of the fibrous pericardium with the parietal (cavity lining) layer of
serous pericardium increase?
Answer: tensile strength
Question 13: "Open end"?
Answer: fibrous pericardium
Question 14: What is the open end in fibrous pericardium fused to?
Answer: connective tissues of great vessels entering/exiting the
heart. continuous with the central tendon of the diaphragm
Question 15: What are the great vessels?
Answer: aorta, pulmonary trunk, inferior/superior vena cavae
Question 16: Double layer membrane?
Answer: serous pericardium
Question 17: What is the outer layer of the serous pericardium fused to fibrous pericardium?
Answer: parietal (cavity lining) layer
Question 18: What serous pericardium layer adheres tightly to the heart surface?
Answer: visceral layer (organ lining) (epicardium)
Question 19: What is the space between the visceral and parietal layers of the serous pericardium?
Answer: pericardial cavity
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