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What is the professional medical name for the study of the heart?

Cardiology.

From wich side of the heart pumps blue (deoxygenated) blood to the lungs?

The right side.

What is the largest artery in the human body that zooms fresh blood to the organs?

The aorta

What are the two large veins that bring tired blood back to the right side of the heart?

The superior vena cava (from the top) and inferior vena cave (from the bottom).

What is the name of the wall that divides the left and right side of the heart?

Septum (inter-ventricular septum).

In the vascular traffic system. Which blood vessels act like narrow driveways for single red blood vessels?

Capillaries.

What are the small flaps inside of your heart that act like one-way doors to prevent backward flow?

Heart valves

What condition means a heart valve has become too stiff and narrow to open properly?

Stenosis.

What is the starter button or natural pacemaker high Up in the heart that starts the electrical spark?

Sinoatrial Node

What is the speed bump Node that pauses the hearts electricity for a split second?

The Atrioventricular Node

What is the medical name of the windpipe that carries down towards the lungs?

The trachea.

What are the millions of tiny bubble like air sacs what oxygen is traded for carbon dioxid?

Alveoli

In the shipping pole analogy what part of the blood acts like delivery trucks picking up oxygen?

Red blood cells.

What is the large flat muscle that acts like an elevator to pull air into the chest?

Diaphragm

Why does the long tree look upside down inside your chest?

Because the main tubes branch out into smaller and smaller branches like a tree canopy.

Why is the left lung smaller than the right lung?

To make room for the heart special indented space cardiac Notch.

How many loves (sections) does the right lung have compared to the left lung?

The right lung has three lobes and the left lung has two lobes.

What waste gas do your body cells produced that your lung must breathe out into the trash?

Carbon dioxide

What is the name of the special liquid lining the alveoli that keeps the little air bubbles from collapsing?

Surfactant

What system do doctors group the heart and lungs into when they work together as an ultimate team?

The Cardiorespiratory system