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Term | Definition |
veins | tiny elastic walls and have valves. Return blood to the heart |
capillaries | Tiny thin walls diffusion |
arteries | Carry oxygenated blood except for pulmonary arteries |
pericardium | ) A double membranous sac which envelops and protects the heart. The layer in contact with the heart is referred to as the visceral layer, the outer layer in contact with surrounding organs is the parietal pericardium. |
oxygenated | oxygen rich blood |
deoxygenated | oxygen poor blood |
agglutination | a reaction in which particles (as red blood cells or bacteria) 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 | largest artery of the body |
septum | Separates the blood |
Valves | a device that opens or closes to let things through or to prevent passage |
anutibodies | Y shaped proteins molecule made by lymphocyte B cell in the bone marrow that binds to the antigen and disable it. |
pulse | High and low pressure that can be felt in the Arteries when left ventricle contracts relaxes |
plasma | Liquid part of the blood |
platelets | Help clot the blood |
white blood cells | Protects the body |
red blood cells | Disk shape structures (cells) that carry oxygen |
vaccine | substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease. |
immunity | the condition that permits either natural or acquired resistance to disease. |
cancer | the disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body. |
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