Blood
The 3 formed elements of blood
What are Erythrocytes, Leukocytes, and Thrombocytes?
The heart is located in this cavity
What is Thoracic?
Where unoxygenated blood enters the heart
What is the Right Atrium?
There are this many types of blood vessels
What is 3?
A disorder of the heart present at birth
What are Congenital heart Defects?
The liquid portion of blood
What is Plasma?
The muscular layer of the hear that is responsible for the contraction and relaxation (pumping)
What is the Myocardium?
This heart chamber receives oxygen rich blood from the lungs by way of the pulmonary veins
What is the left Atrium?
The smallest of the blood vessels, allows the exchange of oxygen, nutrients, and waste to occur within the surrounding cells
What are capillaries?
Commonly known as high blood pressure, this is the elevation of arterial blood pressure likely to cause damage to the cardiovascular system
What is Hypertension?
Also known as RBCs, their primary role is to transport oxygen
What is erythrocytes?
The vessels that supplies oxygen rich blood to the myocardium
What are the coronary arteries?
This valve controls the flow of blood between the right atrium and right ventricle, It's name means having 3 cusps(points)
What is the Tricuspid valve?
Carries unoxygenated blood, has valves that enable blood to flow only towards the heart
What are Veins?
Commonly known as a heart attack, this the total blocking of one or more coronary arteries
What is Myocardial Infarction?
These blood cells are involved in defending the against infective organisms and foreign substances
What are leukocytes (WBCs)
The upper and lower chambers of the heart
That are the Atria and Ventricles?
These major vessels return oxygen poor blood to the heart to begin the circulation cycle over again
What are the Superior and Inferior Vena Cava?
Carries bright red, oxygen rich blood away from the heart. Any disruption in the flow through these can result in stroke or other brain injuries
What are Arteries?
A condition of having a thrombus attached to the inner wall of a deep vein
What is a Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)?
The 4 major blood types
What are A, AB, B, and O?
located in the posterior wall of the right atrium, this is establishes rhythm and rate of heartbeat and is known as the natural pacemaker
What is the Sinoatrial Node (SA node)?
After leaving the left ventricle, blood passes through the aortic valve into this major blood vessel to be distributed to the body
What is the Aorta?
The smaller branches of arteries and veins, and are located at opposite ends of the capillary beds
What are arteioles and venules?
If ruptured it can be fatal, It is a localized weak spot or balloon-like enlargement of the wall of an artery
What is an Aneurysm?