The Heart & the Vascular System

Exercise 1. Answer the following questions.

1. What is an inner hollow muscular organ placed within the chest and included in the pericardium?

2. Where are the base of the heart and the apex located?

3. What is the weight of the heart in the male and in the female?

4. What does the heart consists of?

5. What are two connected parts of the chamber?

6. What separates the atria from the ventricles?

7. Can you compare the walls of the left and the right atrium?

8. How thick are the walls of the right ventricle?

9. Where are the valves located?

10. What does the muscular structure of the heart consist of?

11. How many groups of vessels does the vascular system consist of?

12. What vessels do we call systemic?

13. What is portal system formed by?

14. How do the arteries dilate and contract?

Exercise 2. Make up questions to the underlined words.

1. The right ventricle is triangular in form and has thick walls.

2. Pulmonary vessels carry blood to and from the lungs.

3. The weight of the heart in the female is about 220 gr.

4. The atrioventricular valves separate the atria from the ventricles.

5. The walls of the left ventricle are three times as thick as the walls of the right one.

6. The portal system is formed by the veins passing to the liver.

7. The right ventricle is in the anterior part of the heart.

Exercise 3. Translate into Ukrainian paying attention to Participles.

1. The men carrying out this experiment are new researchers from Glasgow University.

2. All sterilized instruments are kept in specials boxes.

3. A man operated on for acute appendicitis will stay here for a week.

4.1 know the doctor treating this patient.

5. A nurse taking a syringe asked whether he had an allergy on novocaine.

6. The analyses showing the microbes of pneumonia turned to be false.

7. The child left alone in the doctor's cabinet began to cry

8. The patient admitted to the hospital was a 45-year-old female.

9. The inner organs included in the thoracic cavity are the heart and the lungs.

10. The blood carried to the lungs is called venous blood.

11. Children vaccinated from smallpox, shouldn't get infected.

12. The operated patient feels much better now.

13. The investigations carried out by these scientists are of great practical importance.

14. The man injured in a car crash will be operated tomorrow.

15. The woman shocked by the news fainted.

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PRE-TEXT ASSIGNMENTS

Exercise 1. Practice the pronunciation:

Oxygen [‘oksidZ(ə)n], nutrient [‘nju:triənt], essentially [I’sen∫(ə)li], aqueous [‘eikwiəs],serum [‘siərəm], protein [‘prəuti:n], erythrocyte [ə’riθrəsait], leukocyte [‘lju:kəsait], platelet [‘pleitlit], hemoglobin [,hi:mo(u)’gloubin], parasite [‘pærəsait], thrombocyte [‘θrombosait], insufficient [insə’fi∫(ə)nt], through [θru:], hepatitis [hepə’taitis].

Exercise 2. Topic vocabulary:

To oxygenate збагачувати киснем

To dissolve розчиняти

Carbon dioxide вуглекислий газ

To deliver доставляти

Nutrient поживна речовина

Waste products продукти життєдіяльності, відходи

Trace amount сліди (дуже незначна кількість)

To refer (to) відноситись до

Clotting зсідання (крові), коагуляція

Platelet пластинка

Iron залізо

To facilitate сприяти, полегшувати

To resist протистояти

Insufficient недостатній

Bleeding кровотеча

Vector вектор, носій (інфекції)

To transmit передавати

HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) ВІЛ

AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) СНІД

Exercise 3. Translate into Ukrainian:

Bodily fluid, waste products, whole blood, aqueous solution, iron-containing protein, to facilitate transportation of oxygen, the most numerous cellular elements, the clotting of blood, bleeding disorders, an important vector of infection, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, to be transmitted through contact of blood.

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