Blood System
What space is the heart located in?
What is the mediastinum
What 2 things does the lymph system return to the circulatory system?
What is proteins and excess interstitial fluid
What 3 things does the immune system defend the body against?
What is microorganisms (antigens, pathogens), foreign tissues and cancerous cells
What comprises the cardiovascular system?
What is blood, vessels, and the heart
what is the nasal cavity, trachea, lungs, bronchioles
What is the LUQ
What is the etiology of hemolytic anemia?
What is autoimmune and genetic RBC defect
What 3 items does the blood carry to and from the cells?
What is oxygen, nutrients and waste
Increased blood volume will have what effect on blood pressure?
What is increase blood pressure.
Where is the thymus located (give anatomic references please)
What is anterior to the aorta and posterior to the sternum
What is the primary function of the cardiovascular system?
What is bring oxygen/nutrients/water/substances to cells and carry CO2/waste away
What cavity are the lungs and trachea located in?
What is the thoracic cavity.
Can mono testing, CRP testing, and CMP testing be performed using a CLIA-waived test?
What is yes.
What is the anatomic location of the heart? Reference the cavity and 1 directional term.
What is the thoracic cavity, slightly left of midline
What is pus comprised of?
What is WBCs, dead WBCs, bacteria, and tissue cells.
lymph fluid is created from what?
is fatigue subjective or objective?
What is subjective
Which vessels bring oxygenated blood to the heart tissue?
What are the coronary arteries
Where is the respiratory center located?
What is the brainstem
what is the medical term for fever?
What is pyrexia
What is the nickname of the sinoatrial (SA) node?
What is the pacemaker of the heart
What vessels are responsible to bring oxygenated blood back to the left atrium?
What are the pulmonary veins.
Arteries carry blood in what direction?
What is AWAY from the heart
Mono is caused by what virus?
Epstein-Barr virus
If the ventricular strength is decreased, what will the effect on blood pressure be?
What will be lowered?
What respiratory structure lies in the mediastinum space?
What is the trachea
Name 3 potential triggers for an anaphylactic response?
What is drugs, latex, and insect venom
The procedure to destroy abnormal cardiac electrical pathways is known as
What is cardiac ablation
The pulmonary veins carry what type of blood?
What is oxygenated
The area of the chest wall anterior to the heart and lower thorax is known as the
What is the precordium
What does the root leuk/o mean
What is white
Narrowed vessels from atherosclerosis and loss of elasticity will have blood flow in what way?
What is create resistance
What are the upper chambers of the heart called in singular form?
What is atrium
True or False: a person with Latent TB can test positive for TB
What is true
A lipid profile tests what in the blood?
What is cholesterol and triglycerides
What is the term that means clotting?
What is coagulation
What are the two names for the outer layer that covers the heart?
What is the epicardium or visceral pericardium
What is the part of the RBC that carries oxygen and carbon dioxide?
What is Hgb
The circulation of blood from the R side of heart to the lungs is considered what type of circulation?
What is pulmonary
What are the air sacs at the end of the bronchiole called?
What are alveoli/alveolus
RBC production in bone marrow is stimulated by what?
What is erythropoietin
What does Plasma have that Serum does not.
What are active clotting factors.