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| Blood pumped by the heart over the period of 60 seconds? |
CARDIAC OUTPUT |
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| The process of passing a current through a fibrillating heart to depolarize the cells and allow them to re-polarize uniformly, thus restoring organized, coordinated contractions? |
DEFIBRILLATION |
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| When stimulated has rhythm? |
RHYTHMICITY |
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| Ability to spontaneously generate and discharge electrical impulses? |
AUTOMATICITY |
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| Ability of a cell to shorten or lengthen its muscle fibers? |
CONTRACTILITY |
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| movement or propagation of electrical impulses from cell to cell through tissue? |
CONDUCTIVITY |
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| Ability to respond to an electrical impulse? |
EXCITABILITY |
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| Involved in control of negative functions, mediated largely by the vagus nerve. |
PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM |
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| Causes blood vessels to constrict, increases heart rate, prepares body to respond to stress |
SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM |
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| Movement of transmembrane potential in a negative direction to reestablish a polarized state/ |
REPOLARIZATION |
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| Condition in which ions of opposite charges are separated by a semipermeable ll membrane' resting state? |
POLARIZATION |
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| Resting phase of the cell membrane; no electrical activity will be present on the ECG tracing? |
ISOELECTRIC |
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| Movement of transmembrane potential in a positive direction, resulting in contraction? |
DEPOLARIZATION |
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| Early phase of repolarization when no stimulus, no matter how strong, can generate a response? |
ABSOLUTE REFRACTORY |
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