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Blood
Potpourri
100
Generate blood pressure; routing blood; ensure 1-way blood flow; or regulate blood supply.
What is the function of the heart?
100
A tool which is used to listen to the heart
What is a stethoscope?
100
What are the chambers at the bottom of the heart?
What is ventricles?
100
The blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart
What is an artery?
100
Lubb is the first and dubb is the second
What is heart sounds?
200
The function of the myocardium
What is contraction?
200
A type of connective tissue with cells and cell fragments which are surrounded by liquid matrix
What is blood?
200
The rounded part of the cone of the heart between the ribs
What is the apex?
200
They types of blood
What is A, B, and O?
200
A person who gives blood
What is a donor?
300
Transportation, regulation, body temperature maintenance, protection, and clot formation
What is the function of blood?
300
The thick middle layer of the heart wall which is responsible for contraction
What is the myocardium?
300
The smooth inner surface of the heart chambers
What is the endocardium?
300
Major blood vessel which carries blood all over the body
What is the aorta?
300
Low hemoglobin in red blood cells or a reduced amount of red blood cells
What is Anemia?
400
Responsible for the red color of blood; transports oxygen
What is hemoglobin?
400
The clumping of cells in the body
What is agglutination?
400
A region of dead heart tissue
What is an infarct?
400
What the formed elements in blood are made up of
What is red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets?
400
A blood clot is also called
What is a thrombus?
500
Carries blood away from the heart and to the rest of the body
What is the function of arteries?
500
The rupture of red blood cells
What is hemolysis?
500
A large vein located within the coronary sulcus
What is the coronary sinus?
500
What makes up plasma in blood
What is albumin, globulins, and fibrinogen?
500
The contraction of smooth muscle in blood vessels which decreases blood flow
What is vasoconstriction?
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