Function
Used for any condition in which there is loss of a large volume of blood, known as a hemorrhage.
What is transfusion?
This is the correct name for red blood cells.
What is erythrocytes?
This is the sac that encloses the heart.
What is the pericardium?
Structures which carry oxygenated blood to the body.
What are arteries?
This fluid serves as a middleman between the capillary membrane and the neighboring cells.
What is interstitial fluid?
These (3) are the functions of blood.
What are transportation, regulation, and protection?
These are cell fragments, constantly being released from bone marrow, which participate in clotting.
What are platelets?
This is the cavity which houses the heart.
What is the mediastinum?
This structure of the circulatory system has thinner walls and one-way valves to ensure flow.
What are veins?
This term means an increase in vessel diameter.
What is vasodilation?
This is the location where blood cells are produced.
What is bone marrow?
This aspect of blood, which contains antibodies and complement, is what lymph fluid is derived from.
What is blood plasma?
The section of the heart which receives deoxygenated blood from the body.
What is the right atrium?
The layer of the heart which comes in contact with blood from the body.
What is the endocardium?
A term which means a connection or exchange between two things which are normally diverging.
What is anastamose?
This is the universal donor type.
What is Type O?
This is the term for something which thins blood and decreases the body's ability to clot.
What is anticoagulant?
The largest chamber of the heart.
This is a term for a relatively slow heart rate.
What is bradycardia?
This is a special system that filters blood through the liver before returning to the heart.
What is the hepatic portal system?
This is the process that prevents blood loss from circulation when a blood vessel is ruptured by an injury.
What is hemostasis?
These are ANY substances capable of activating an immune response.
What are antigens?
The large vein which carries deoxygenated blood back to the heart.
What is the superior and inferior vena cava?
The active phase of the cardiac cycle.
What is systole?
These two terms mean the ease with which arteries expand to receive blood and relax to their original size.
What are compliance and elasticity?