Blood
What are the four components of blood?
RBC, WBC, Platelets and Plasma
What are the four different blood types?
A, B, AB, O
What are the four chambers of the heart? What divides them?
Right Atrium
Right Ventricle
Left Atrium
Left Ventricle
Divided by the septum
What are the three types of blood vessels?
Artery
Vein
Capillary
What is the primary function of red blood cells?
To carry oxygen throughout the body via hemoglobin
What is the purpose/function of plasma?
To carry nutrients, antibodies and other essential proteins throughout the body
How can you tell what type of blood an individual has?
Provide an example
Look at the antigens on the red-blood cells
Example: no antigens, 0 blood
Where does the blood go after being pumped by the left ventricle?
To the Aorta to be distributed throughout the body
What is the function of each type of blood vessel?
Artery carries oxygenated blood away from heart
Veins carry deoxygenated blood toward the heart/lungs
capillaries connect arteries and veins providing the ability to exchange nutrients with waste
What is the main function of the cardiovascular system
To help maintain homeostasis by transporting nutrients all throughout the body
Which protein aids in the binding of oxygen to RBCs
O has no antigens and therefore will not be recognized by the recipients blood
Which type of circulation involves the pulmonary veins and arteries?
What is the general definition?
Pulmonary circulation (movement of blood between the heart and the lungs)
Pulmonary = Lungs
This vein is the only vein you color red on your diagram. This is the only artery you color blue on your diagram Why??
Pulmonary Vein (retrieves oxygenated blood from lungs and passes to heart)
Pulmonary artery (takes deoxygenated blood away from heart to lungs)
What are three more functions of the cardiovascular system?
Gas exchange
Thermoregulation
Pathogen identification/destruction
What is the function of white blood cells?
aid in immune response; recognize pathogens
If A woman can receive A, B and O blood, what type of blood does this woman have? What type of antigens?
AB blood
A and B antigens (not AB antigens)
Create a flow chart showing the flow of blood from the inferior/superior vena cave to the body
Inferior/superior vena cava - right atrium - right ventricle - pulmonary artery - lung- pulmonary vein- left atrium- left ventricle- aorta- body
Explain how a capillaries structure matches it's function
These blood vessels are only one cell wall thick which allows for quick and easy diffusion of nutrients/waste across membranes.
What is atherosclerosis?
A build up of fatty materials (cholesterol) inside of blood vessels.
Can lead to a heart attack
How does our blood diffuse into the other parts of our body besides our blood vessels?
Capillaries are a single cell wall thick and aid in the diffusion of waste and nutrients to the veins and arteries respectively
Explain why O is the universal donor although it contains both A and B antibodies?
The antibodies are located in the plasma which is filtered out before donating pure red blood cells to the patient.
What happens when the heart stops beating?
The flow of blood in the body stops.
The flow of all essential nutrients (oxygen) stops and can be debilitating to your brain.
This is the largest artery in your body. Where does it pump blood? Which type of blood?
Aorta, pumps oxygenated blood to the upper and lower extremities
(opposite of vena cava)
What is a stroke?
blood vessel in the brain becomes clogged or ruptures, certain parts of brain will not receive oxygen