The Blood
These are the largest type of cell in the human blood stream.
What are white blood cells?
These types of blood vessels carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
The name of the only vein that carries oxygenated blood back to the heart.
What is the pulmonary vein?
The two types of digestion.
What are physical and chemical digestion?
The two divisions of the innate immune system.
What are physical barriers and internal defenses?
These blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to cells throughout the body.
What are red blood cells?
The number of chambers in the heart.
What is four?
The site of gas exchange in the lungs.
What is the alveolus/alveoli?
The type of muscle found between the esophagus and stomach, stomach and small intestine, small intestine and large intestine and at the base of the alimentary canal.
What is a sphincter?
Chemical messengers released by some of the WBCs in the innate immune system.
What are cytokines?
The name of the liquid portion of blood that carries dissolved molecules, ions and waste products.
What is plasma?
The names of the two circuits of the cardiovascular system.
What are systemic and pulmonary?
The muscle that has the biggest impact on thoracic cavity volume.
What is the diaphragm?
The two layers of folding in the small intestine that increase the surface area for absorption.
What are villi and microvilli?
The type of WBC that can engulf and destroy pathogens.
What are macrophages, neutrophils or dendritic cells?
This organ removes dead or damaged blood cells from the bloodstream.
What is the spleen?
The fancy names for contraction and relaxation, respectively, in cardiac muscle.
What are systole and diastole?
The name of the two processes that allow for gas exchange.
What are bulk flow and diffusion?
The motion of smooth muscle that moves food through the digestive system.
What is peristalsis?
Proteins that bond to the cell membranes of pathogens that affect function and mark the pathogen for the rest of the immune system.
What are complement proteins?
Small, anuclear cell fragments that circulate in the blood and are essential for blood clotting.
What are platelets?
The action that produces the ‘lub’ sound of the lub dub heartbeat.
What is the atrioventricular valve closing?
The zone that contains your nose, mouth, pharynx, larynx, trachea and nasal cavity.
What is the conducting zone?
The three accessory organs to the digestive tract.
What are the gall bladder, pancreas and liver?
Swelling, fever, redness, and leaky blood vessels are all part of this response.
What is the inflammatory response?