This blood cell fights infections?
What is white blood cells?
The smallest vessels
What are capillaries?
Type of muscle in the heart
What is cardiac muscle?
LEUKEMIA is a disease where the person has a low what....they have trouble fighting infections?
What is White Blood Count?
(IAi) antigens on a RBC results in ___ blood type
What is A?
This type of tissue includes bones, ligaments, and blood
connective tissue
Trace the path of a red blood cell through the body starting at the right atrium (including valves)
R atrium - tricuspid valve - R ventricle - pulmonary valve - pulmonary arteries - lungs - pulmonary veins - L atrium - bicuspid valve - L ventricle - aortic valve - aorta - arteries - capillaries - veins - vena cavae - R atrium
This protein makes the blood red and carries oxygen.
What is hemoglobin?
Vessels that carry oxygenated blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
The upper chambers of the heart
What are the atria?
Free bleeders disease.....they can not clot blood. Queen Victoria was a carrier of this disease.
What is hemophilia?
ii antigens on a RBC results in ___ blood type
What is O?
This type of tissue lines the outsides of organs
What is the epithelium?
Plasma is made up of 90% of this?
What is water?
Vessels that carry deoxygenated blood towards the heart.
What are veins?
The largest artery that branches from the heart
What is the aorta?
This disease lives in the blood and is transmitted by mosquitoes.
What is malaria?
Number of possible blood types for humans
What is 8?
This is what type of muscle tissue has only one nucleus and intercalated discs and is involuntary.
What is Cardiac Muscle tissue?
These formed elements are inactive in the blood until a wound occurs, then they are activated and help form a clot.
What are platelets?
These vessels have valves in them to prevent blood from flowing in the wrong direction.
What are veins?
Blood travels to the right atrium via THESE vessels
What are the superior and inferior vena cavas?
Anatomical term for high blood pressure
What is hypertension?
Most common blood type
What is O+?
This separates the right side of the heart form the left side.
What is the septum?
Blood is this type of tissue?
What is connective tissue
The ONLY vein that carries oxygenated blood.
What is the pulmonary vein?
Blood travels from the right atria to this structure.
What is the pulmonary vein and the lungs?
This disease of the blood is where the blood has not enough oxygen due to an odd shape
What is sickle cell anemia?
Universal donor blood type.... be specific
What is O-?
This type of tissue is the one that consists of a cell body, dendrite and axon.
What is nervous tissue?