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Occlusion of blood vessels tends to lead to inadequate blood flow to the downstream tissues. What do you expect to happen to the capillaries in these tissues?

Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) means that the pumping efficiency of the heart is depressed so that there is inadequate delivery of blood to body tissues.

Beta blockers are a  ________ and would __________ cardiac output.

The steepest drop in blood pressure comes just as blood enters the capillary beds.  Since structure and function go together, describe the structure of the capillaries and  why the pressure needs to be reduced before entering these vessels. 

The “dup” sound that is made during the lub-dup sounds heard while auscultating the heart is caused by:

The mitral valve has chordae tendinae.

Select all that apply: Which factors help contribute to cardiac muscles resistance to fatigue?

1. Name this region (40)  2. Name this region (41) 3. Name this structure (42)  

Name the labeled vessel. 

Name the branches of the aortic arch: