These blood cells are responsible for carrying oxygen to the cells
What are red blood cells/erythrocytes?
These blood vessels carry blood away from the heart
What are arteries?
What are artia?
Cardi/o
What is heart?
Cardiomegaly
What is enlargement of the heart?
These blood cells are responsible for fighting infection
What are white blood cells/ leukocytes?
These blood vessels carry blood to the heart
What are veins?
The number of valves in the heart
What is 4?
brady
What is slow?
The double walled membranous sac that encloses the heart
What is the pericardium?
These blood cells clump together to form clots
These blood vessels are the smallest of all the blood vessels
What are capillaries?
The large veins responsible for returning blood directly into the heart (hint...there are 2)
What are the superior and inferior vena cavae?
thromb/o
what is clot?
The flow of blood between the heart and the lungs
What is pulmonary circulation?
This is where red blood cells are produced
What is red bone marrow?
These are the smallest veins
What are venules?
These arteries are responsible carrying blood upward to the head
What are the carotid arteries?
arteri/o
What is artery?
CHF
What is congestive heart failure?
This is part of a red blood cell carries oxygen
What is hemoglobin?
These are the smallest arteries
What are arterioles?
The reason that the walls of the ventricles are thicker than the atria
What is because they pump blood throughout the entire body?
Ather/o
inflammation of the lining or valves of the heart caused by bacteria
What is bacterial carditis?