Latin Vocabulary

Aorta - main artery leaving heart: the main artery in mammals that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to all the branch arteries in the body except those in the lungs

Arterioles - small artery: a blood vessel that branches off from an artery

Artery - type of blood vessel: a blood vessel that is part of the system carrying blood under pressure from the heart to the rest of the body

Bundle of His – a collection of fibers or strands, as of muscle fibers, or a fasciculus or band of nerve fibers.

Capillaries - are the smallest blood vessels in the body, connecting the smallest arteries to the smallest veins.

Inferior vena cava - the large vein which returns blood to the heart from the head, neck and both upper limbs

Left atrium - is one of four chambers in the human heart. It receives oxygenated blood from the pulmonary veins, and pumps it into the left ventricle,

Mitral valve - heart valve: the one-way valve between the upper and lower chambers, or atrium and ventricle, on the left side of the heart

Pulmonary - relating to lungs: relating to or affecting the lungs

Purkinge fibers - Any of the specialized cardiac muscle fibers, part of the impulse-conducting network of the heart, that rapidly transmit impulses from the atrioventricular node to the ventricles.

Right atrium - he right upper chamber of the heart. The right atrium receives deoxygenated blood from the body through the vena cava and pumps it into the right lung.

Septum - thin partition in organism: a thin partition or membrane dividing something into two or more cavities. Examples include the tissue separating the nostrils, each of the muscular membranes separating the chambers of the heart, and the internal dividing walls in the seed heads of poppies.

Sinoatrial node - The heart's natural pacemaker, one of the major elements in the cardiac conduction system

Superior vena cava - is the large vein which returns blood to the heart from the head, neck and both upper limbs....