"I hear your heart beat..."
These are the receiving chambers of the heart.
What are the atria?
This is the number of chambers in the heart.
What is 4?
The scientific name for the throat.
What is the pharynx?
The major artery that supplies blood to your body.
What is the aorta?
These are the blood vessels that contain valves and carry blood back to the heart.
What are veins?
Fragments of red blood cells in your blood that helps with blood clotting.
What are platelets?
The scientific name for the voice box.
What is the larynx?
Flaps of tissue that prevent blood from flowing backward.
What are valves?
This structure prevents the passage of food from the pharynx into the lungs.
What is the epiglottis?
The region of your heart that sets the rate of heart contractions.
What is the pacemaker?
This is the valve located between the right atrium and right ventricle.
What is the tricuspid valve?
The name of the structure that carries air from the trachea to the lungs.
What are bronchi?
This liquid makes up 55% of your blood.
What is plasma?
This is the number of miles of blood vessels in the human body. (to the nearest 10,000)
What is 60,000 miles?
List in order the biggest to smallest blood vessels.
What are arteries, veins, capillaries?
The maximum and minimum arterial pressures are called...
What is systolic and diastolic pressure?
The lung volume changes because of the muscle underneath it called...
What is the diaphragm?
This is the protein in your blood that stores oxygen.
What is hemoglobin?