Chambers
Pulmonary circulation
The liquid part of blood, consisting mostly of water.
Plasma
Blood from the upper body returns to the right ventricle through this vessel.
Superior vena cava
The aorta moves blood from this chamber to the body in systemic circulation.
Left ventricle
Blood vessels that moves oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart.
Pulmonary vein
Moves blood to all tissues except lungs and heart.
What is systemic circulation?
Helps blood clot?
Platelets
There are too few red blood cells carrying oxygen in this disorder.
Anemia?
The blood in systemic circulation returns from the body through the vena cava to this chamber.
Right atrium
Blood vessel carrying blood towards the kidneys.
Renal artery
Collects fluid from body tissue spaces and returns it to the blood.
What is lymphatic system?
The blood cell that can engulf and digest pathogens.
Phagocytes.
White blood cells are produced in great numbers in this disease of the blood.
What is Leukemia?
When these chambers contracts, the semilunar valves open.
Ventricular chambers
Blood vessels with the lowest blood pressure.
The flow of blood to the tissues of the heart.
What is coronary circulation?
Differentiate between antigen, antibody, and pathogen.
Antigen - found on the surface of pathogens
Antibody - proteins made by white blood cells complementary to antigens on pathogens
Pathogen - a disease causing organism
The vessel that brings oxygenated blood to the heart muscles.
Coronary artery
When blood moves from the righgt atrium to a right ventricle it pass through this one-way door.
Tricuspid valve
This is the name of what is formed when fats clog the arteries.
Atheroma
The water and dissolved substances between cells.
Tissue fluid