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The ventricular syncytium contracts from superior to inferior.

The pericardial fluid lies between the visceral pericardium and the:    

Which anatomical structure does the coronary arteries branch from?

The cells can respond to an electrical stimulus, like all other myocardial cells:

Which anatomical structure does the coronary arteries branch from?

Typical stroke volume is about ________ of the volume of the left ventricle.

The cells can respond to an electrical stimulus, like all other myocardial cells:

In lecture we spoke of how the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) innervates the heart.  To receive full credit, you must answer the following questions: 1.  What are the two parts of the Autonomic Nervous System? 2.  What response would you expect to find with Beta 1 stimulation? 3. What response would you expect to find with Beta 2 stimulation? 4. What response would you expect to find with Alpha 1 stimulation? 5.  Explain in your own words how Atropine increases the heart rate. 6.  Explain in your own words how dopamine and epinephrine increases the heart rate. 7.  Explain in your own words why albuterol and atrovent are administered in the same nebulizer.

You are evaluating a patient who awoke with flu-like symptoms. The patient complains of the inability to move his tongue; which cranial nerve could be compromised?

The first part of the aorta as it leaves the heart is the: