Heart Vessels
carries blood to the heart
What is a vein?
The upper chambers of the heart are called the...
What are the atria?
The strongest chamber of the heart.
What is the left ventricle?
The process of forming a blood clot.
What is hemostasis?
The three types of blood cells are...
What are white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets?
what carries blood away from the heart
What are arteries?
The type of blood found in the Right Atrium.
What is deoxygenated?
This chamber of the heart is responsible for pumping blood to the rest of the body
What is the left ventricle?
The innermost layer of a vein or artery wall.
What is the tunica intima?
Anemia or over hydration is indicated by...
What is a low hematocrit?
Returns blood from the body to the heart.
What is the vena cava?
Blood from the left atrium travels through this on its way to the...
Through the Bicuspid (mitral) Valve, and into the Left Ventricle.
On its way to the lungs, blood must exit the right ventricle by passing through the ______ valve and the ______ vessel.
What are the pulmonary valve and pulmonary artery?
What are arteries?
Dehydration can be indicated by...
What is a high hematocrit?
These vessels take oxygenated blood from lungs to the left atrium.
What are Pulmonary Veins?
Blood from the right atrium passes through this on its way to the...
When you feel cold, your blood vessels respond by...
This prevents unwanted blood clots.
This is released from the ______ when the blood oxygen level drops.
What is erythropoietin released by the kidneys?
This is the only artery that carries deoxygenated blood.
What is the pulmonary artery?
This chamber of the heart pumps blood from the heart to the lungs
What is the right ventricle?
The atrioventricular valves have these but the semilunar vales do not.
What are chordae tendineae?
After the vessel walls constrict and spasm this is the second step of blood clotting.
What is platelets aggregate?
The act of white blood cells exiting the blood vessels.
What is diapedesis?