Blood
The Latin prefix for blood
What is Hemo/a?
Beats approximately 100,000 times per day
What is the heart?
Shortage of RBC's or hemoglobin
What is anemia?
What are the left and right coronary arteries?
Heat pumping controlled by electrical impulses?
What is an EKG?
Blood provides this to cells/tissues
What is nutrients and oxygen?
Size of the heart using other anatomy
What is a clenched fist?
Hemoglobin disorder caused by abnormally shaped RBC's
What is Sickle Cell Anemia?
Receives most O2 rich blood off the aorta
What are the coronary arteries?
Generates waves of signals to contract
What is a pacemaker?
Connective tissue
What kind of tissue is blood?
Rt/LT Atria (Upper) and Rt/Lt Ventricles (Lower)
What are the four muscular chambers of the heart?
Inherited disorder resulting in mutation of hemoglobin gene
What is Thalassemia?
Results in muscular death
What is a blocked arteries?
Compression of the heart due to fluid accumulation within the pericardium
What is a pericardial tamponade?
Most numerous blood cell type
What is a red blood cell?
A thin tough sack covering the heart
What is the pericardium?
Yellowish-brownish staining of the skin
What is jaundice?
Pressure of blood o the walls of the arteries as it circulates through the body
What is blood pressure?
Corrects malfunctioning heart valves
What is heart valve repair?
pH & ion compounds, clotting capabilities, body temperature
What are the regulations of blood?
Inner surface of heart, including the heart valves?
What is the endocardium?
Inadequate number of WBC's
What is Laukopenia?
Caused by smoking, obesity, lack of physical activity, high salt diet
What is hypertension?
Replaces weak ballooning sections of blood vessels?
What is an aneurysm repair?