I heart you!
This is the main organ of the circulatory system. It is a hallow organ that has walls made of strong muscle.
What is the heart?
This is the push of blood through the blood vessels.
What is a pulse?
These blood vessels carry blood FROM the heart TO all the other parts of the body.
What are arteries?
This is the largest artery in the human body.
What is the aorta?
What are the four parts of blood?
The transfer of blood from a healthy person to a sick or injured person.
What is blood transfusion?
The upper chamber on each side of the heart.
What are the atriums?
This is the part of your heart that acts as the control center. This small group of cells makes sure your heart beats at a steady pace.
What is a pacemaker?
These blood vessels carry blood BACK to the heart.
What are veins?
These veins carry blood from the upper body.
What is the superior vena cava?
These tiny blood cells carry oxygen to all parts of the body.
What are red blood cells?
Blood transfusions requires that other people ___________ _______________.
What is donate blood?
The lower chamber on each side of the heart.
What are the ventricles?
Electrical signals made by your pacemaker can be read by this special machine.
What is an Electrocardiograph (EKG)?
These are the small blood vessels that connect the arteries and veins.
What are capillaries?
These veins carry blood from the lower body?
What is the inferior vena cava?
These blood cells help the body fight diseases and infection.
What are white blood cells?
This is one way the body removes waste from our body. In this process, water, and salt, and other wastes are moved out of the blood and into sweat gland before escaping through tiny tubes in the skin.
Must use the technical term!
What is Perspiration?
These small flaps of tissue controls the flow of blood in and through the heart.
What are valves?
Doctors use this instrument to listen to the "lubb-dubb" sounds of the heart.
What is a stethoscope?
This is a word that means "relating to the heart."
What is Coronary?
This English doctor was the first to understand how the Circulatory System really works. He was the first to say that the heart is a pump that moves blood through the body, and he explained how the blood is circulated through the body and then returns to the heart.
Who is William Harvey?
This is the liquid part of blood.
What is plasma?
In this process of removing waste from the body, carbon dioxide and other wastes are removed from the lungs.
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What is Respiration?
Fill in the blanks:
A. The _________ side of the heart receives blood that is heavy in Carbon Dioxide and sends blood to the lungs to become oxygenated.
B. The _________ side of the heart receives blood from the lungs that is heavily oxygenated and sends blood into the rest of the body.
A. Right
B. Left
The opening and closing of this causes the "lubb-dubb" sound of the heart.
What are the heart valves?
This is a word that means "relating to the lungs."
What is Pulmonary?
This Austrian physician discovered why blood transfusions do not always work. He found that blood is not all the same, instead asserting that there are different types.
Who is Karl Landsteiner?
These small fragments of cells help form blood clots.
What are platelets?
Most people have two. These bean-shaped organs located on either side of the spine remove wastes and excess water from your blood. These organs combine the waste with water to form urine.
What are the kidneys?