The right ventricle pumps deoxygenated blood to this major organ.
What are the lungs?
100
The red fluid in your body that carries oxygen and nutrients to the cells.
What is blood?
100
This muscle pumps blood and is about the size of your fist.
What is the heart?
100
When blood clots or other blockage cuts blood flow from the heart.
What is a heart attack?
100
This damages the lining of your arteries, leading to buildup of fatty material which narrows the artery. It may cause angina, heart attacks, and strokes.
What is smoking?
200
Blood moves through 2 different types of tubes called what throughout the body.
What are veins and arteries?
200
The cells found in blood that help you stop bleeding after you get a cut.
What are platelets?
200
These are the two chambers at the bottom section of your heart.
What are the ventricles?
200
This occurs when part of the brain doesn’t get enough blood due to a clot or burst vessel.
What is a stroke?
200
The term for when an adult has a body mass index of 30 or higher.
What is obesity?
300
It takes less than this many seconds to pump blood into every cell in your body.
What is 60 seconds?
300
This is a yellowish liquid in blood that carries nutrients, hormones, and proteins throughout the body.
What is plasma?
300
These are the two chambers at the top section of your heart.
What are the atria?
300
This happens when fats and other substances builds up in the coronary arteries.
What is Coronary Artery Disease?
300
This is a common condition in which the blood force against your artery walls is high enough to cause potential health problems.
What is high blood pressure?
400
The process when blood flows from the heart into the lungs to the heart.
What is Pulmonary Circulation?
400
The iron rich protein that gives the blood it’s red color.
What is hemoglobin?
400
These are the mechanical devices that permit the flow of blood in one direction only.
What are heart valves?
400
This occurs when a person is having chest pain caused by their heart not getting enough blood.
What is angina?
400
Having this can increase your risk of heart disease. When you have this, you may develop fatty deposits in your blood vessels.
What is High Cholesterol?
500
The process where blood flows from the heart to the body back to the heart.
What is Systemic Circulation?
500
The three different types of these include Granulocytes, Lymphocytes, and Monocytes.
What are white blood cells?
500
The vessels that allows blood to leave the heart and go into the lungs, back to the heart.
What are pulmonary arteries?
500
This occurs when there aren't enough of a certain type of white blood cell to protect the body against bacterial infections.
What is neutropenia?
500
This is a metabolic disease in which the body’s inability to produce any or enough insulin causes elevated levels of glucose in the blood can increase one's risk of heart disease.