Parts & Types of Blood
The four blood types.
What is A, B, AB, and O?
Blood vessels that carry blood AWAY from the heart.
What are arteries?
These are the two chambers of the heart that receive blood from the veins and forces it by muscular contraction into a ventricle.
What are atriums?
The condition also known as high blood pressure.
What is hypertension?
The primary organ of the circulatory system.
What is the heart?
The solid part of blood.
What are platelets?
Blood vessels that carry blood from the body back to the heart.
What are veins?
The valve allows blood to travel from the right atrium to the right ventricle.
What is tricuspid?
The type of cancer that occurs when large amounts of abnormal white blood cells are produced.
The number of chambers in the heart.
What is 4?
The liquid component of blood.
What is plasma?
The blood cells that carry oxygen.
What are red blood cells?
The valve allows blood to flow from the right ventricle to the lungs.
What is pulmonary?
This condition is when there is a blockage of blood flow to the heart.
What is a heart attack?
The process that occurs when cells are nourished and energized by the blood.
What is cellular respiration?
The universal donor blood type.
What is O- ?
The blood cells that carry germ fighters from the immune system.
What are white blood cells?
The valve allows blood to flow from the left atrium to the left ventricle.
What is mitral?
The condition when blood cells lack hemoglobin (which allows oxygen to bind to red blood cells).
What is anemia?
These allow blood to flow in only one direction through the heart.
What are valves?
The component of blood used for clotting in wounds.
The blood vessels that connect veins and arteries to the body's cells.
What are capillaries?
The valve allows blood to flow from the left ventricle to the aorta.
What is aortic?
The condition occurs when blood supply to part of your brain is interrupted or reduced.
What is a stroke?
True or false: The heart is a conscious system that requires our full attention to keep beating.
What is false?