Organs
Parts of the blood
Problems of the heart
Parts of the heart
Types of circulation
100
this is the fist sized organ that pumps blood in the circulatory
What is the heart?
100
the fluid that carries gases, nutrients, and wastes through the body and made up of plasma, red blood cells, platelets, and white blood cellls
What is blood?
100
the disease when you have abnormally high blood pressure
What is hypertension?
100
It supplies oxygenated blood to the circulatory system
What is the aorta?
100
The flow of blood from the heart to the lungs and back to the heart
What is pulmonary circulation?
200
This organ in the circulatory system helps to release carbon dioxide waste from the body and helps oxygen from the air into the red blood cells.
What is the lungs?
200
a mixture of water, minerals, nutrients, sugars, proteins and other substances, fluid part of the blood.
What is plasma?
200
the area of a heart is damages
What is a heart attack?
200
The large vein carrying deoxygenated blood to the heart
What is Vena Cava?
200
the flow of blood from the heart to all parts of the body and back to the heart
What is systemic circulation?
300
the vessel that carries deoxygenated blood back to the heart
what are veins?
300
pieces of larger cells found in bone marrow, they enter bloodstream, that clot blood
What are platelets?
300
When the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the body's needs
What is heart failure?
300
An upper chamber in the heart. There are two of these in the heart.
What is atrium?
300
The circulation of blood in blood vessels.
What is coronary circulation?
400
a blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart to the bodies organs
What are arteries?
400
they take oxygen to every cell in your body, the most common blood cells
What are red bloods cells?
400
when cholesteral builds up in blood vessels
what is atherosclerosis?
400
each lower chamber in the heart. There are 2 of them.
What is ventricles?
400
the lowest ateral pressure.
What is diastolic pressure?
500
a tiny blood vessel that allows an exchange between blood, cells and other tissues
What are capillaries?
500
defend the body against bacteria
What are white blood cells?
500
dont smoke, eat healthy, get lots of exercise, lower cholesteral
What is maintenance of a healthy heart?
500
a tube that allows blood to flow in only one direction through the heart
What are heart valves?
500
the maximum ateral pressure occurring during contraction of the left ventricle of the heart.
What is systolic pressure?
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