The Heart
this is the chamber of the heart that receives deoxygenated blood
what is the right atrium?
this is the largest artery in the body
what is the aorta?
What is the name of the artery that runs from the heart up to the brain?
what is the carotid artery?
How many umbilcal arteries do fetuses have?
This is the formal name for a red blood cell
This ventricle is more muscular than the other side
what is the left ventricle?
This is the only vein in the body that carries oxygenated blood
what is the pulmonary vein?
what is the systemic circuit?
a fetus has how many umbilical veins?
what is 1?
What are the two gases that red blood cells carry?
What is the inner layer of the heart called?
These two types of vessels have valves inside them
what are venules and veins?
This circuit of vessels in the body assist with fluid drainage, immune system support, and features open-ended vessels
what is the lymphatic system?
This fetal structure allows fetal blood to travel from R atria directly to L atria.
What is the foramen ovale/oval opening?
blood has the lowest velocity in these vessels
what are capillaries?
what is the atrioventricular node?
Which type of pressure is stronger at the arteriole end of a capilarry:
what is blood pressure?
the aorta descends and splits into these two major arteries down each leg
what is the iliac artery?
This structure in a fetus allows blood to bypass the lungs by shunting blood from the R ventricle directly into the aorta
What is the ductus arteriousus/arterial duct?
When blood pressure is taken, two numbers are given. What do these numbers represent and what are healthy numbers?
what are systolic and diastolic pressure, and what is 120/80?
These are the vessels that supply blood to the myocardium
what are the coronary vessels?
these smooth muscles prevent blood from entering particular capillary beds
what are precapillary sphincters?
This is the name of the vessel that carries blood from the intestines to the liver
what is the hepatic portal vein?
This fetal structure allows blood to bypass the fetal liver?
what is the ductus venosus/venous duct?
In the blood clotting pathway, what activator converts fibrinogen into fibrin?
what is thrombin?