Blood
Vessels
The Heart
Disorders
Blood Typing
Take Your Chances
Final Jeopardy
100
Blood is the only ____ connective tissue in the body.
What is fluid?
100
The smallest vessels
What are capillaries?
100
Type of muscle in the heart
What is cardiac muscle?
100
Inherited disorder with misshapen erythrocytes that can block blood flow.
What is Sickle-cell Anemia?
100
A antigens results in ___ blood type
What is A?
100
Normal blood pressure
What is 120/80?
100
Trace the path of a red blood cell through the body starting at the right atrium (including valves)
R atrium - tricuspid valve - R ventricle - pulmonary valve - pulmonary arteries - lungs - pulmonary veins - L atrium - bicuspid valve - L ventricle - aortic valve - aorta - arteries - capillaries - veins - vena cavae - R atrium
200
This protein makes the blood red.
What is hemoglobin?
200
Vessels that carry oxygenated blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
200
The upper chambers of the heart
What are the atria?
200
Free bleeders disease
What is hemophilia?
200
No antigens results in ___ blood type
What is O?
200
The valve between the right atrium and right ventricle
What is the tricuspid valve?
300
Plasma makes up ___% of the blood volume.
What is 55%?
300
Vessels that carry deoxygenated blood towards the heart.
What are veins?
300
The largest artery that branches from the heart
What is the aorta?
300
Abnormally fast heart beat
What is tachycardia?
300
Number of possible blood types for humans
What is 8?
300
This person has ___ blood.
What is A+?
400
These formed elements are inactive in the blood until a wound occurs, then they are activated and help form a clot.
What are platelets?
400
Smooth muscle in the vessels walls allow them to ___ and ___.
What is constrict and dilate?
400
The pacemaker of the heart
What is the sinoatrial (SA) node?
400
Anatomical term for high blood pressure
What is hypertension?
400
Most common blood type
What is O+?
400
The only type of cell in the body that is anucleated
What is erythrocyte or RBC?
500
Name 2 substances that are dissolved in plasma.
What are proteins, electrolytes, hormones, wastes, respiratory gases, organic substances, etc.
500
The ONLY vein that carries oxygenated blood.
What is the pulmonary vein?
500
The valve between the left atrium and left ventricle
What is the bicuspid or mitral valve?
500
Anatomical term for heart attack
What is myocardial infarction?
500
Universal donor blood type
What is O-?
500
Test that reads the heart electrical impulse rhythm
What is an electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG)?