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What muscular layer of the heart wall is responsible for contraction?
✔✔ Myocardium
What layer of the heart lines the inner surface of the chambers?
✔✔ Endocardium
What is the outer protective layer of the heart called?
✔✔ Epicardium
What is the name of the sac that surrounds and protects the heart?
✔✔ Pericardium
What is the name of the small space between the pericardial layers?
✔✔ Pericardial cavity
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,What fluid reduces friction between the heart and the pericardium?
✔✔ Pericardial fluid
What node initiates the electrical impulse that causes the heart to contract?
✔✔ SA node
What is the heart’s natural pacemaker?
✔✔ Sinoatrial node
What part of the conduction system delays the impulse before it reaches the ventricles?
✔✔ AV node
What structure carries impulses from the AV node to the ventricles?
✔✔ Bundle of His
What fibers spread the impulse throughout the ventricles?
✔✔ Purkinje fibers
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, What term describes contraction of the heart chambers?
✔✔ Systole
What term describes relaxation of the heart chambers?
✔✔ Diastole
What sound is produced by the closing of the AV valves?
✔✔ Lub
What sound is produced by the closing of the semilunar valves?
✔✔ Dub
What valve opens during right ventricular contraction?
✔✔ Pulmonary semilunar valve
What valve opens during left ventricular contraction?
✔✔ Aortic semilunar valve
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