Circulatory System
Controls the body's steady blood circulation through the heart and blood vessels.
What is Circulatory System?
A fluid that travels through the circulatory system to supply oxygen and nutrients to cells and tissues and removes carbon dioxide and waste from them
What is blood?
Important part of the immune system, which helps defends against infection.
What is Lymphatic System?
Consists of the skin and its accessory organs
What is Integumentary System?
Group of specialized glands that controls the growth, development, reproduction, and health of the entire body
What is the Endocrine System?
Cone-shaped organ i blood moving witin the circulatory system.
What is the heart?
Pints of blood in the human body
What is 8-10 pints?
Clear or pale-yellow fluid that contains white blood cells and travels through lumph vessels
What is Lymph?
Means a natural covering
What is the Integument?
Produce and release substances that perform a specific function in the body
What is Endocrine System?
The amount of gallons an adult body can pump every day
What is 4,000 gallons?
Tubelike structures that circulate blood throughout the body
What is Blood Vessels?
Glandlike structures that filter bacteria, viruses, and cancer cells and are connected by lymph vessels
What is the Lymph Nodes?
Protects the body from the outside elements, such as germs, chemicals and sun exposure
what is the skin?
Ductless glands, includes pituitary, thyroid, and adrenal glands as well as other glands, and releases hormones right into the blood stream
What is the Endocrine Glands?
system that carries oxygen-poor blood to the lungs for oygen-rich blood can be delivered to the body
What is Pulmonary Circulation?
Largest Artery in the body
What is Aorta?
It includes lymph, lymph nodes, thymus gland, spleen, and lymph vessels
What is the Lymphatic System?
Helps regulate the body's temperature
What is the skin?
Duct glands, including the sebaceous and sudoriferous glands, as well as others, and produce a substance that travels through small tubelike ducts.
What are Exocrine Glands?
System that carries oxygen-rich blood from the heart throughout the body and returns oxygen-poor back to the heart.
What is Systemic Circulation?
Main Arteries on both sides of the neck that supply blood to the head, face & neck
What is Common Carotid Arteries?
A client that has a compromised immune system
What is the contraindication?
Largest organ of the body
What is the Skin?
Chemical substances such as insulin, adrenaline and estrogen that stimulate activities in the body.
What are Hormones?