The Heart
What is the Septum?
Found near tissues, the site where oxygenated blood becomes deoxygenated.
What are capillaries?
This portion of the blood is made of mostly water, nutrients, vitamins, etc.
What is Plasma?
This happens to blood vessels when temperature decreases.
What is vasoconstriction?
This tool is used to measure systolic and diastolic pressure.
What is a sphygmomanometer?
These large vessels connect to the right atrium.
What is the Superior/Inferior Vena Cava?
The largest vessel in the human body.
What is the Aorta?
Another word for red blood cells.
What is an Erythocytes?
This marker on blood cells indicates positive or negative blood.
What is the Rh factor?
This disorder is caused by white blood cells not maturing in the bone marrow.
What is a leukemia?
When these vessels' valves do not work properly, they may become "varicose".
What are veins?
This condition is can be known for having low levels of hemoglobin.
What is Anemia?
The receptors that are found on a type of white blood cells which detect dangerous materials.
What are antibodies?
This machine graphs the electrical impulse of the heart.
What is an electrocardiogram (ECG)?
The stage in which ventricles contract to push blood out of the heart.
Ventricular Systole
These vessels have a high systolic pressure.
What are arteries?
The resulting product of Thrombin reacting with Fibrinogen.
What is Fibrin?
This blood type is considered the universal receiver.
What is AB blood type?
This disorder is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus which attacks T Cells.
What is a AIDS?
This ventricle has the strong muscle to push blood out of the aorta.
What is the left ventricle?
The only vessels to carry the opposite type of blood compared to the rest of the body. (2 Answers)
What is the Pulmonary Artery and Pulmonary Vein?
This group of white blood cells may either attack viruses on the loose, or attack cells infected by a virus. ie) B Cells and T Cells
What ar Lymphocytes?
A patient with the blood type O, would recieve this type of blood during a transfusion to survive.
What is Type O?
This procedure uses vein graphs (extra veins) to reroute certain blood flow.
What is a coronary bypass?