Structures
What are the three main components of the circulatory system?
What are blood, blood vessels, and the heart?
What does the circulatory system primarily transport?
What are food, hormones, metabolic wastes, and gases?
What is hypertension commonly referred to?
What is high blood pressure?
What are the four main blood types in the ABO system?
What are types A, B, AB, and O?
What is the main function of the heart?
What is to pump blood throughout the body?
What is the primary function of blood in the circulatory system?
What is to transport gases, nutrients, and waste products?
How does blood help maintain homeostasis?
By transporting gases, nutrients, waste products, and regulating body temperature.
What condition is characterized by a bulge in the wall of an artery?
What is an aneurysm?
What antigens are present in type A blood?
What are A antigens?
How many chambers does the heart have?
What are four chambers?
Which type of blood cell is responsible for transporting oxygen?
What are erythrocytes (red blood cells)?
What is the role of leukocytes in the circulatory system?
What is to protect the body against invading organisms and remove waste?
What is atherosclerosis?
What is the buildup of plaque in the arteries?
Which blood type is known as the universal donor?
What is type O?
What is the role of the tricuspid valve?
What is to regulate blood flow between the right atrium and right ventricle?
Name the smallest blood vessels where gas exchange occurs.
What are capillaries?
What does plasma transport within the blood?
What are glucose, lipids, amino acids, hormones, and waste products?
Name a serious condition that results from the blockage of a coronary artery.
What is a heart attack?
How does the Rh factor affect blood types?
It determines whether blood is Rh+ (with the factor) or Rh- (without the factor).
What are the two types of circulation the heart manages?
What are pulmonary circulation and systemic circulation?
What is the medical term for platelet?
What is thrombocyte?
Explain how erythropoiesis relates to red blood cells.
What is the process of making red blood cells in the bone marrow?
What is the leading cause of death in the United States related to the circulatory system?
What is coronary artery disease?
Why is it important to know blood type compatibility?
To avoid agglutination when transfusing blood, which can lead to serious complications.
Describe the cardiac cycle.
What is the repeating process of diastole (relaxation) and systole (contraction) of the heart?
Starting from the Superior/Inferior Vena Cava, write down the structures the blood moves through
1. Superior/Inferior Vena Cava
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1. Superior/Inferior Vena Cava
2. Right Atrium
3. Right Ventricle
4. Pulmonary Artery
5. Capillaries of the lungs
6. Pulmonary Vein
7. Left Atrium
8. Left Ventricle
9. Aorta
Name the 5 types of leukocytes
monocytes
eosinophils
basophils
lymphocytes
neutrophils
Name 3 complications of coronary artery disease
Angina
coronary heart disease
atherosclerosis
Name the blood type that is the universal recipient
AB+
Name the only artery in the body that carries deoxygenated blood.
What is the Pulmonary Artery?