What is: Four
What is the largest artery in the body?
What is: the aorta
What is the liquid portion of the blood called?
What is: Plasma
What is the heart known as?
What is: The body's pump
What artery is found in the head, neck, and face?
What is: The common carotid arteries
What is the main function of red blood cells?
What is: Carry oxygen
Roughly how many times does your heart beat daily?
What is: approximately 100,000 times
Name one reason why the circulatory system is important in esthetics
What is: Cell nourishment, waste removal, healing/ recovery, or thermoregulation
What is the function of white blood cells?
What is: Fighting infection
How many beats per minute does the heart beat?
What is: 70-80 beats per minute
If you stretched out all the arteries, veins, and blood vessels in the body, roughly how long would they be in total?
What is: 60,000 miles (circles the earth roughly 2 times)
Which component of the blood helps stop bleeding by forming clots?
What is: Platelets
What is the estimate of how many times our heart beats in our lifetime?
What is: 2.6 billion times
What is the most common fragility of couprose skin?
What is: redness, distended capillaries
Name the blood components
What is: red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and plasma