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Earn 100

Define ventricular diastole.

Important Questions on Body Fluids and Circulation

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Doctors use a stethoscope to hear the sounds produced during each cardiac cycle. The second sound is heard when:
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A regular check on the unborn baby of a lady towards the end of her pregnancy showed a heart rate of 80 beats per minute. What would the doctor infer about the baby's heart condition from this?
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How do parasympathetic neural signals affect the working of the heart?
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Assertion (A): Dub' is one of the sounds of the heart caused during a cardiac cycle.

Reason (R): The sound is due to closure of semilunar valves present at the bases of aortic arches.

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Match the following related to the cardiac cycle.

Column I Column II
i Cardiac Cycle a 0.2 sec
ii Atrial Systole b 0.4 sec
iii Ventricular Systole c 0.1 sec
iv Cardiac Diastole d 0.8 sec
    e 0.3 sec
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Which one of the following statements is correct?
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Calculate the cardiac output on an individual having 70 heartbeats/min with a stroke volume of 55 mL.
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Which of the following is associated with decrease in cardiac output?
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What would be the heart rate of a person if the cardiac output is 5 L, blood volume in the ventricles at the end of diastole is 100 mL and at the end of ventricular systole is 50 mL?  
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The correct route through which pulse-making impulse travels in the heart is
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The difference between systolic and diastolic pressure in human is
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What is cardiac cycle? Name its various events. 
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How are rate of heartbeat and pulse related to each other?
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In humans, blood passes from the inferior vena cava to the diastolic right atrium of heart due to
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Short answer questions:

Define pulse and blood pressure.

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Maximum pressure of blood experienced during when blood enters from