Cardiovascular Physiology
5 Questions
| Total Attempts: 4615
Created for medical undergraduates - Take it to test your understanding of the fundamentals of cardiovascular physiology.
Questions and Answers
- 1.The ventricular myocardium expends energy to fill during diastole.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.Which one of the following clinical signs is associated with underlying cardiac or pulmonary pathology?
- A.
Icterus
- B.
Unilateral pedal oedema
- C.
Clubbing
- D.
Peripheral cyanosis
- 3.A ....................... murmur is heard between the first and second heart sounds.
- 4.Jugular venous pulsations are looked for in the .................. vein.
- 5.Which of the following is the stimulus for increased secretion of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP)?
- A.
Increased blood plasma osmolality
- B.
Decreased blood plasma osmolality
- C.
. increased systemic arterial pressure
- D.
. increased venous blood volume and atrial pressure
- E.
. increased cardiac contractility (force of contraction)
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