Parts of the Heart
The largest chamber in the heart.
What is the left ventricle?
Carry blood away from the heart
What is an artery?
The part of blood that supplies your cells in your body with oxygen.
What are Red Blood Cells?
The four main blood types.
What are A, B, AB, and O?
What is the circulatory system?
This muscular organ pumps oxygen-rich blood to the body and oxygen-poor blood to the heart.
What is the heart?
The largest artery in the human body.
What is the aorta?
A connective tissue made up of two types of cells, cell parts, and plasma.
The universal donor blood type
What is Type O?
When you cut or scrape your skin, you bleed because these have been opened.
What are blood vessels?
Oxygen-poor blood is returned to the heart from the HEAD and SHOULDERS through this large vein.
What is the SUPERIOR Vena Cava?
Fluid parts of the blood that is made up of water, minerals, nutrients, sugar, proteins, and other substances.
What is plasma?
The universal recipient blood type.
What is Type AB?
What is a heart attack?
Blood is pushed from the vena cava into this thin-walled chamber.
What is the right atrium?
Smallest blood vessels in the body.
What are capillaries?
Part of your blood clumps together in damaged areas of your blood vessels to form a plug that helps reduce blood loss.
What are platelets?
Type B blood contains __-antigens on the surface of RBCs and __-antibodies in the plasma.
What are B-antigens and A-antibodies?
The force exerted by blood on the inside walls of the blood vessel.
What is blood pressure?
Oxygen-rich blood is returned to the heart through these blood vessels.
These structures prevent blood from flowing backward in veins.
What are valves?
This part of blood is the body's first line of defense against pathogens.
What are white blood cells?
The types of blood a person with Type A can receive from.
What are A and O?
What is a stroke?