Cardiac Physiology puzzle
Across
- 2. The cardiac muscles ability to generate and propagate electrical impulses is called
- 4. The ability of cardiac muscle cells to respond to a stimulus and generate an action potential is known as ________
- 6. The phase during which no new action potential can be initiated is called the ______ refractory period
- 7. The plateau phase in the cardiac action potential is mainly due to the influx of _____ions
- 8. The ability of the heart muscle to contract is referred to as_____
- 10. The main pacemaker of the heart that initiates electrical impulses is the _______nodes.
Down
- 1. The phase of the cardiac action potential during which pottasium ions leave the cells is called _________
- 3. A sudden change in electrical potential across the cardiac cell membrane due to ion movement is called an _____
- 5. The specialized structure that connect cardiac muscle cells to one another and allow for synchronized contraction are called ________disks
- 9. The______potential refers to the voltage difference across the cardiac cell membranes at rest.