Chapter 1.1
As an organism gets bigger it’s __________ ratio decreases.
What is Surface Area to Volume ratio?
The probability of occurrence of some unwanted event or outcome
What is Risk?
Another term for high blood pressure.
What is Hypertension?
Chemicals which lower cholesterol levels in the blood by inhibiting the enzyme in the liver associated with cholesterol production. Also have an anti-inflamatory effect.
What are statins?
Blood vessels composed only of epithelial cells and a basement membrane
What are capillaries?
When a change in one variable is responsible for a change in another variable.
What is causation?
Fluid derived from tissue fluid within the vessels of the lymphatic system.
What is Lymph?
A drug which reduces the synthesis of angiotensin II, the hormone which causes vasoconstriction of blood vessels.
What is an ACE inhibitor?
These open when atrial pressure exceeds ventricular pressure
Atrio-Ventricular valves
A study where a group of people are followed over time to see who develops the disease
What is a COHORT study?
The quantity of heat energy required to raise the temperature of 1cm3 of water by 1°C
What is a Calorie?
Anticoagulant drug that works by reducing the tendency of blood to form clots.
What is Warfarin?
These strands form a mesh that trap red blood cells.
What is Fibrin?
If the method is this, it will mean that when the method is repeated then the repeated values are all close together.
What is RELIABLE?
The connection between monosaccharides formed by the removal of water.
What is a glycosidic bond?
Drugs which block Ca2+channels in muscle cells lining the arteries, preventing muscle contraction.
What are Calcium Channel Blockers?
This occurs when a blood vessel supplying blood to the brain bursts
Haemorrhagic stroke
A statement that assumes (for the sake of the argument) that there will be no difference between an experimental group and a control group and then testing this statement using statistical analysis
What is a Null Hypothesis?
The minimum energy requirement to keep an organism alive and maintaining essential processes, e.g. breathing.
What is the Basal Metabolic Rate?
Insertion of a tiny balloon into an artery which when inflated may improve the passage of blood flow.
What is an angioplasty?