Blood
The component of the blood that carries gases.
What are red blood cells?
They carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
The upper right of the heart that receives blood from the superior and inferior vena cava.
What is the right atrium?
The valve found between the left atrium and left ventricle.
What is the bicuspid valve?
Movement of blood between the heart and lungs.
What is pulmonary circulation?
The liquid component of the blood that carries nutrients, hormones, and the solid components of the blood.
What is plasma?
They carry blood toward the heart.
What are veins?
It sends blood through the pulmonary arteries to the lungs when it contracts.
What is the right ventricle?
The location of the SA and AV nodes.
What is the right atrium?
The movement of blood between the heart and the rest of the body.
What is systemic circulation?
The components of the blood that cause clotting.
What are platelets?
The microscopic blood vessels responsible for exchange of substances with the tissues.
What are capillaries?
It receives blood from the lungs via the pulmonary veins.
What is the left atrium?
The muscular wall that divides the ventricles.
What is the septum?
The gas that is being carried by the blood in the arteries leaving the heart.
What is oxygen?
The components of the blood that are also cells of the immune system.
What are white blood cells?
They carry blood from arteries to capillaries.
What are arterioles?
It sends blood through the aorta to the body when it contracts.
What is the left ventricle?
The nerves that run up the sides of the ventricle.
What are the Purkinje fibers?
The gas that is carried by the blood leaving the capillaries through the venules.
What is carbon dioxide?
It's plasma with the clotting factor removed.
What is serum?
They drain the blood from capillaries into the veins.
What are venules?
It's the valve that prevents blood from reentering the right atrium when the ventricles contract.
What is the tricuspid valve?
The nerve that carries impulses from the AV node down through the septum and up the Purkinje fibers.
What is the bundle of His?
The blood vessels that supply the heart muscle with oxygen and nutrients.
What are cardiac arteries?
The name of the process that makes red blood cells.
What is hemopoiesis or hematopoiesis?
The process that exchanges substances between the capillaries and tissues.
What is diffusion?
AV is an abbreviation for this term.
What is atrioventricular?
SA is the abbreviation for this term.
What is sinoatrial?
A graph that shows the electrical impulses that are generated by the heart.
What is an ECG or EKG?