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Do papillary muscles prevent the AV valves from prolapsing excessively into the atria when the ventricles contract?
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∙ 11y ago
Papillary muscles are connected to the chordae tendonae on the AV valves. During ventricular systole ( contraction of the ventricles) the papillary muscles contract preventing regurgitation of blood back into the atriums.
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What happens if the papillary muscles fail to contract?
If the papillary muscles fail to contract the valves will prolapse. The papillary muscles are located in the ventricles and contract to prevent prolapse.
What are the fibrous structures in the heart that prevent prolapse of the cuspid valves?
Chordae tendineae - attached to the valves between both atria and ventricles... these structures are attached to papillary muscles in the bottom of the ventricles. these contract when the valves contract, this keeps the blood from going back up into the atria.
How much blood from the aorta passes into the ventricles before the atria contract?
lots :)
What are the electrical impulses in the heart that are relayed to the ventricles by what?
A junction box, also known as the AV node, is how electrical impulses in the heart are relayed to the ventricles. The ventricles help make the muscle contract and then pump the blood.
What carries electrical impulses across the heart and causes the ventricles contract?
SA node.
What happens if the papillary muscles fail to contract?
If the papillary muscles fail to contract the valves will prolapse. The papillary muscles are located in the ventricles and contract to prevent prolapse.
What are the fibrous structures in the heart that prevent prolapse of the cuspid valves?
Chordae tendineae - attached to the valves between both atria and ventricles... these structures are attached to papillary muscles in the bottom of the ventricles. these contract when the valves contract, this keeps the blood from going back up into the atria.
What makes ventricles contract?
Purkinje Fibers actually makes the ventricles contract.
What happen after depolarization of the ventricles?
The ventricles contract.
What is the Difference between the papillary muscle and the pectinate muscle?
The pectinate muscles are shaped a bit like brush bristles, and their function is to allow maxium contraction of the atria using the minimal muscle mass. Papillary muscles are connected to strong tendons in the ventricles called the chordae tendinae, which gives them a lot of strength. Their purpose is to prevent prolapse of the valves in the ventricles after the ventricles contract. Prolapse means that the valves fall inward, allowing backflow of blood back into the ventricles after they have contracted, which makes for a far less efficient action of the ventricles. Prolapsed valves and the blackflow of blood caused by the valves folding onto themselves is called a "heart murmur".
When atria relax ventricles do what?
When relaxed, the atria expand, and then the ventricles contract.
Do the ventricles contract at the apex or at the base of the heart?
Not really sure what you mean by the base, the ventricles contract from the Apex (which is at the bottom) upwards.
Why is it an advantage for the ventricles to contract from the bottom?
The pulmonary artery and the aorta lead upward and away from the ventricles. Since the ventricles contract from the bottom, blood is more efficiently pushed out of the heart.
Do atria contract before the ventricles?
Yes, atria contracts before the ventricles.
When doe the ventricles contract?
Systole
Where is blood pumped when ventricles contract?
Into the heart
When the ventricles get very full it does what strongly?
contract
