Parts of the Heart
Parts of the Heart 2
Blood Vessels
Blood
Potpourri
100
The bottom chamber of the heart
What is the ventricle?
100
The top chamber of the heart
What is the atrium?
100
Vessels carrying blood away from the heart
What are arteries?
100
The liquid part of blood
What is plasma?
100
The force exerted on the walls of blood vessels when the ventricles contract.
What is blood pressure?
200
Flaps of tissue that prevent blood from flowing backward.
What are valves?
200
The side of the heart that pumps to the lungs.
What is the right side?
200
Vessels carrying blood toward the heart.
What are veins?
200
Special cells that carry and deliver oxygen to the cells throughout the body.
What are red blood cells?
200
The middle layer of arteries and veins is composed of this tissue.
What is smooth muscle?
300
A group of cells that send out signals that make the heart contract.
What is the pacemaker?
300
The vessel that carries blood toward the heart from the lungs.
What is the pulmonary vein?
300
Tiny vessels where substances are exchanged between the blood and body cells.
What are capillaries?
300
Cells in the blood that are the body's disease fighters.
What are white blood cells?
300
Marker molecules that determine blood type.
What are antigens?
400
The vessel carrying blood away from the heart to the lungs.
What is the pulmonary artery?
400
Blood returns to the right atrium through this vessel.
What is the vena cava?
400
Special structures in veins that prevent blood from flowing backward
What are valves?
400
Cell fragments that help form blood clots.
What are platelets?
400
The body's drainage system that helps to filter disease causing bacteria and viruses.
What is the lymphatic system?
500
The largest artery in the body
What is the aorta?
500
The location of the pacemaker in the heart
What is the right atrium?
500
The artery that carries blood to the heart muscle itself.
What is the coronary artery?
500
The universal donor blood type including Rh factor
What is O negative?
500
The top number of blood pressure which occurs when ventricles contract
What is systolic pressure?
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