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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Pericardium | the membrane enclosing the heart, consisting of an outer fibrous layer and an inner double layer of serous membrane. |
| Veins | any of the tubes forming part of the blood circulation system of the body, carrying in most cases oxygen-depleted blood toward the heart. |
| Capillaries | any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules. |
| Arteries | any of the muscular-walled tubes forming part of the circulation system by which blood is conveyed from the heart to all parts of the body. |
| Oxygenated | supply, treat, charge, or enrich with oxygen. |
| Deoxygenated | remove oxygen from. |
| agglutionation | a reaction in which particles suspended in a liquid collect into clumps and which occurs especially as a serological response to a specific antibody. |
| ventricles | a hollow part or cavity in an organ, in particular. |
| atria | each of the two upper cavities of the heart from which blood is passed to the ventricles. The right atrium receives deoxygenated blood from the veins of the body; the left atrium receives oxygenated blood from the pulmonary vein. |
| Septum | a partition separating two chambers, such as that between the nostrils or the chambers of the heart. |
| Valves | a device for controlling the passage of fluid or air through a pipe, duct, etc., especially an automatic device allowing movement in one direction only. |
| antibodies | a blood protein produced in response to and counteracting a specific antigen. Antibodies combine chemically with substances that the body recognizes as alien, such as bacteria, viruses, and foreign substances in the blood. |
| Pulse | a rhythmical throbbing of the arteries as blood is propelled through them, typically as felt in the wrists or neck. |
| plasma | the colorless fluid part of blood, lymph, or milk, in which corpuscles or fat globules are suspended. |
| platelets | a small colorless disk-shaped cell fragment without a nucleus, found in large numbers in blood and involved in clotting. |
| White blood cells | less technical term for leukocyte. |
| red blood cells | less technical term for erythrocyte. |
| vaccine | production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease. |
| immunity | the ability of an organism to resist a particular infection or toxin by the action of specific antibodies or sensitized white blood cells. |
| cancer | the disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body. |
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