Terms
Carries blood to the heart
Veins
Carries blood away from the heart
Arteries
Grape like clusters
Alveoli
Pneumo means
Lungs
Blood does not run backwards because of the
Valves
Helps to clot the blood
Platelets
Smallest blood vessels that exchange nutrients and oxygen for wasters at the cell.
Capillaries
the pair of essential, air-filled organs in the chest that enable breathing and gas exchange, supplying oxygen to the body while removing carbon dioxide
Lungs
Structure used to smell
Nasal Passage
The main artery that leads away from the heart
Aorta
Largest Artery that carries blood to the body
Aorta
90% Water and 10% dissolved substances that makes blood a liquid
Plasma
commonly known as the windpipe, is a 4-inch-long, 1-inch-wide cartilaginous tube connecting the larynx to the lungs.
Trachea
Major muscle of the Respiration
Diaphragm
Job of the circulatory system
Delivers Materials, fights disease, and removes waste
Thin wall sacs surrounded by capillaries that all gas exchanges in the lungs.
Alveoli (grape like clusters)
Prevents the blood from running backward-found in the heart and veins
Valves
a muscular, tube-shaped passageway located behind the nasal cavity and mouth, extending down to the esophagus and larynx
Pharynx
Main Bronchi that branches from the trachea
Primary Bronchi
Vessels leading to the lungs
Pulmonary arteries
Surrounds and absorbs foreign bodies in the blood
Lymphocytes
Carries Oxygen to and carbon dioxide all over the body
RBC
the smallest, cartilage-free airways in the lungs,
Bronchioles
a hollow muscular organ located in the middle of the neck, just above the trachea (windpipe) and below the pharynx.
larynx
Passage that carries oxygen rich blood carried away from the heart
Arteries