Blood Basics
This liquid portion of blood makes up about 55% of total blood volume.
What is plasma?
Cells that carry oxygen.
What are red blood cells (erythrocytes)?
The heart has this many chambers.
What is four?
Vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
Circulation between heart and lungs
What is pulmonary circulation?
The fragments of blood cells responsible for clotting.
What is platelets?
Cells that fight infection.
What are white blood cells (leukocytes)?
The upper chambers of the heart.
What are the atria?
Vessels that carry blood back to the heart.
What are veins?
Circulation between heart and body.
What is systemic circulation?
The pigment that gives blood its red color.
What is hemoglobin?
Blood fragments responsible for clotting.
What are platelets (thrombocytes)?
The valve between the left atrium and left ventricle.
What is the bicuspid valve?
The smallest blood vessels where exchange occurs.
What are capillaries?
The vessel that carries oxygenated blood from lungs to heart.
What are the pulmonary veins?
Average adult blood volume in the human body.
What is about 5 liters?
The universal donor blood type.
What is O negative?
The natural pacemaker of the heart.
What is the SA node (sinoatrial node)?
Arteries have this compared to veins
What are thicker, more muscular walls?
The side of the heart that pumps blood to the body.
What is the left side?
The process of blood cell formation
What is hematopoiesis?
The blood type known as the universal recipient.
The blood type known as the universal recipient.
The phase when the heart contracts.
What is systole?
The largest artery in the body.
What is the aorta?
The force exerted by blood on vessel walls.
What is blood pressure?