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Q: What is a momentary expansion of an artery following a heartbeat?
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What are some possible complications of the pulmonary artery catheterization?

irregular heartbeat


What is the expansion and recoil of an artery called?

pulse


When you have a heartbeat in your throat mean you pregnant?

No. This is just an artery in your neck that you can feel your pulse in.


Is your pulse caused by your heartbeat?

Your Artery expands and contracts with each heart beat.


What is expansion and recoil of an artery during heart activity?

Pulse


During a heartbeat the heart does work to move the blood to inflate arteries discuss this statement with regard to mechanical energy?

Yes It works. The expansion and contraction(the dub-lub) is a gradualbut fast process. This energy is supplied by the oxygenthrough the coronary artery.


What is the name of the phase of a heartbeat when the heart contracts and pumps blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery?

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Why does my neck pulsate?

because a main artery flows through there. It's your heartbeat making it pulsate.


Which bleeds more artery or vein?

Yes, because there is more pressure in the artery than in the vein so the artery has to be big enough to hold the pressure that's inside it.


The expansion and contraction produced by blood as it moves through an artery produces the?

Pulse


Bright red blood that spurts out comes from severed vein or severed artery?

It comes from an artery. Arteries carry OXYGENATED blood away from heart. This oxygenated blood is bright red. The Arterial system is on the high pressure side of the heart. The pressure changes as the heart contracts and then expands and refills (a heartbeat). When an artery is punctured the blood will spurt with every heartbeat.


What is the heartbeat found on the side of the neck?

carotid artery that pulsates. Do not press hard as it will affect the blood pressure of the person.