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. |