Heart
What blood vessels carries blood away from the heart?
Arteries
The ability to maintain internal stability in an organism to compensate for environmental changes is called _____.
Homeostasis
What do doctors and nurses use to check a patient's blood pressure?
stethoscope and sphygmomanometer
These blood vessels carry blood to the heart.
Veins
What blood vessels are the smallest and thinnest?
Capillaries
The area where your heart is located.
Thorax
The heart has a regulatory system, known as the intrinsic conduction system, that determines the heartbeat's pace. What is the order of conduction?
SA node, AV node, the bundle of His, bundle branches, and Purkinje fibers.
__________________ is a measure of how much pressure your blood vessels endure when blood is flowing through them.
Blood pressure
The top or first number of a blood pressure reading is called the _____ blood pressure.
systolic
Name the artery that transport the blood directly from the heart.
Aorta
There are four valves inside the heart name three of them.
Tricuspid, Mitral or bicuspid, Pulmonary, and Aortic
There are several types of blood vessels that make up the human circulatory system name the 5 types
Where do veins receive the blood they carry back to the heart?
From the Capillaries
Blood leaves through the __________ side of the heart.
Left side
Name the four chambers of the heart. (Remember right and left)
Right and Left Atrium, Left and Right Ventricle
These blood vessels connect arterioles to venules and are the site where gases, nutrients, and waste products are exchanged between blood and the surrounding tissues.
Capillaries
Name two Vena Cava blood vessels.
Inferior and Superior
This dorsal body cavity is, itself, composed of two different cavities. One is known as the cranial cavity, the other one is called__________.
spinal (vertebral) cavity)
What chamber does the blood return to once it leaves the lungs.
Left Atrium
The ____________ number reveals how low your blood pressure is when your heart is relaxed.
diastolic
What are two minor blood vessels.
Arterioles and Venules
Blood cell formation, also called __________ or __________, is defined as the continuous process by which blood cells, which include red blood cells, white blood cells, and blood platelets
hematopoiesis - hemopoiesis
What is the Function of Red Blood Cells??
The main function of red blood cells is to: