Flow
What type of blood vessel carries blood AWAY from the heart?
What is an Artery?
What makes up 90% of plasma? (Plasma is the LIQUID portion of the blood)
What is water?
What is watery liquid formed from interstitial fluid found in lymphatics?
What is lymph?
Deoxygenated blood enters the heart through which part of the heart?
What are the vena cavas?
What organ consists of four chambers and pumps blood?
What is the heart?
To become oxygenated, blood must travel through this organ
What are the lungs?
Which of the components of blood are true cells?
What are leukocytes?
What are encapsulated masses of lymphatic tissue?
What are lymph nodes?
Oxygenated blood leaves the heart through the what?
What is the aorta?
What is the organ similar to lymph nodes?
What is the spleen?
What is one main difference about the flow of lymph capillaries compared to blood capillaries?
What is one-way?
When there is an open wound, what does blood work to do? (Uses help of thrombocytes)
What is hemostasis? (Or blood clotting)
What two types of tissue are found in the spleen?
What is red and white pulp?
When looking at the anterior view of the heart, the tricuspid valve is on the what-hand side? And the left ventricle is on the what-hand side?
What is left-hand side; right-hand side?
What runs through all organs that met at the heart?
What are blood vessels?
What is the buildup of excess fluid in the tissues, which leads to swelling?
What is edema?
Describe the shape of erythrocytes
What is biconcave?
What is the process by which the body protects itself from pathogenic invaders?
What is Immunological Defense?
What do the pulmonary arteries lead to?
What are the lungs?
Where do organs get oxygen from?
What is oxygenated blood?
What is circulation of the blood around alveoli (air sacs) of the lungs?
What is pulmonary circulation?
What is a protein that uses Fe to bind 4 oxygens? (250 million of these in each RBC)
What is a hemoglobin?
What type of invader is our own cells that have been genetically damaged?
What are cancers?
What is carbon-dioxide rich blood?
What is deoxygenated blood?
Not really organ related but what type of blood vessel allows for the exchange of gases and nutrients?
What are capillaries?