Blood
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 WBC?
(A) antigens on a RBC results in ___ blood type
What is A?
Normal blood pressure
What is 120/80?
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.
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.
What is hemophilia?
No antigens on a RBC results in ___ blood type
What is O?
The valve between the right atrium and right ventricle
What is the tricuspid valve?
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?
Abnormally fast heart beat
What is tachycardia?
Number of possible blood types for humans
What is 8?
This causes you to be considered + or - blood?
What is Rh factor?
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 from 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?
The valve between the left atrium and left ventricle
What is the bicuspid or mitral valve?
Anatomical term for heart attack
What is myocardial infarction?
Universal donor blood type.... be specific
What is O-?
Test that reads the heart electrical impulse rhythm
What is an electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG)?