Across
- 2. Load the heart faces after contraction begins
- 3. Phase of the cardiac cycle when the heart empties blood
- 5. Adaptive hypertrophy seen in pregnancy
- 7. Structural changes in heart size, shape, and function
- 11. Law describing the tension in a vessel wall
- 12. Phase of the cardiac cycle when the heart fills with blood
- 13. According to LaPlace, larger this means more wall stress
- 16. Amount of blood pumped from one ventricle per beat (2 words)
- 17. Load that stretches the heart before contraction
- 18. Sarcomere addition direction in eccentric hypertrophy
- 20. Formula component that decreases wall stress when increased
- 22. Hypertrophy due to volume overload
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- 1. This chamber often hypertrophies in systemic hypertension (2 words)
- 4. Structural cardiac response to chronic overload
- 6. Hypertrophy due to pressure overload
- 8. Force exerted on the wall of a chamber under pressure
- 9. The most common cause of pressure overload
- 10. This is inversely proportion to wall thickness (2 words)
- 14. Ability of the heart to stretch during filling
- 15. Sarcomere addition direction in concentric hypertrophy
- 19. One of the most common causes of volume overload
- 21. Natriuretic peptide increased in heart failure