Cardiovascular System
"The Flow"
Blood
Vocab
Miscellaneous
100
The upper chambers of the heart?
What are Atria?
100

Blood returning to the heart through the pulmonary vein has what type of blood.

What is oxygenated?

100
Liquid portion of blood.
What is Plasma?
100
Pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
100
The four blood types.
What are A, B, AB, O.
200
The major artery that carries blood to the body.
What is the Aorta?
200
Blood moves in the heart from the atrium (on either side) to this.
What is Ventricle?
200
Component of blood that allows for clotting.
What are Platelets?
200
A vessel that has thick walls to withstand pressure from the heart.
What is an Artery?
200
Small blood vessels that allow exchange of material between blood and body cells.
What is a capillary?
300
These prevent the back flow of blood.
What are Valves?
300
Oxygen poor blood returns to the heart from the body through these.
What are the Superior and Inferior Vena Cava?
300
A person with type B blood has this type of antigen on the surface of their blood cells.
What is Type B?
300
High Blood Pressure.
What is Hypertension?
300
Brain damage caused by ruptures in blood vessels.
What is a Stroke?
400
The three types of vessels.
What are Arteries, Veins, Capillaries?
400
Oxygen poor blood leaves the heart through this to get to the lungs.
What is the Pulmonary Artery?
400
The most numerous blood cells.
What are RBC?
400
Substance on the surface of red blood cells that determines the blood type.
What is an Antigen?
400
A person with this type of blood has type A antibodies.
What is Type B?
500
The four components of blood.
What are RBC, WBC, plasma, platelets?
500
A type of circulation from the heart to the body.
What is Systemic Circulation?
500
The largest type of blood cell.
What is WBC?
500
The highest pressure in your blood vessels (when the heart is squeezing blood).
What is Systolic pressure?
500
Cholesterol build up in the arteries; this can cause vessels to clot.
What is Atherosclerosis?
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