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Respiratory System
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cardiovascular System | Consists of the heart and three types of blood vessels that carry blood throughout your heart. |
| The Blood Vessels- | Arteries, Capillaries, and veins carry blood pumped by the heart. |
| Cardiac Muscle | Your heart is an organ made mostly of cardiac muscle tissue. |
| Arteries | blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart and to the body’s organs. |
| Capillaries | tiny blood vessels that allow the exchange between body cells and blood. |
| Veins | are blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart. |
| Pulmonary Circulation | Flow of blood from the heart through the pulmonary arteries, capillaries and veins. |
| Systematic Circulation | Flow of blood from the heart to all parts of the body back to the heart. |
| Atheroclerosis | This is a major cays if heart diseases. |
| High Blood Pressure | Hypertension is normally high blood pressure. The higher the blood pressure the greater risk of having a heart attack, heart failure, kidney disease and stroke. |
| Blood | Connective Tissue that carries gases nutrients and wastes through the body. |
| Plasma | Fluid part of the blood. Mixture of water, minerals, nutrients, sugars, proteins and other substances. |
| Platelets | Pieces of larger cells found in bone marrow. |
| White Blood Cells | Help keep you healthy by destroying platelets. . |
| White Blood Cells | Helps keep you helathy by destroying body cells that have been damaged or died. |
| True | Your blood helps regulate your body tempeture. |
| Blood Pressure | The force experted by blood on the inside on the inside walls of arteries. |
| Blood Types | This refers to the type of antigens you have on the surface of your Red Blood Cells. |
| Tranfussion | The injection of blood or blood componets into a person to replace blood that has been lost. |
| Blood Types | important consideration of blood tranfussion. |
| Type A can only receive | Type A,O |
| Type A can only donate to | Type A, AB |
| Type B can only receive | Type BO |
| Type B can only donate to | Type B, AB |
| Type AB can receive | ALL |
| Type AB can only donate to | AB only |
| Type O can only receive | Type O |
| Type O can only donate to | ALL |
| Respiration | Process by which a body gets and uses oxygen and releases carbon dioxide and water. |
| Celluar Respiration | Involves Chemical Reactions that release energy from the food. |