CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
The system that carries blood to all organs of the skeletal, muscular, digestive/renal, and respiratory system.
What is the Circulatory System
What is diffusion
Read Hebrews 9:14
How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
The liquid part of the blood that is over 90% water and 10% dissolved O2/CO2, salts, vitamins, nutrients, hormones & urea
What is blood plasma
Special markers that attach to the surface of your red blood cells. There are A, B, AB, O antigens
What are antigens
Scientific name for blood carrying mostly carbon dioxide (not oxygen).
What is deoxygenated blood
Oxygen and nutrient delivery system
What is blood as a transporter system
Read 2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
Another name for Red Blood Cells that carry oxygen to tissues
What is another name for Erythrocytes
A process of giving another individual's blood to another individual's body
What is Blood Transfusion
The arteries and arterioles do this action
What is oxygenated blood away from the heart
White blood cells (aka Leukocytes) kill and destroy viruses/bacteria and other foreign invaders.
Platelets have properties that stop bleeding (clot) when tissue gets cut, torn or injured.
What is the blood system Protector
Read John 5:24
Truly, Truly, I say to you, he who hears My work, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgement, but has passed out of death into life
The special protein that allows the red blood cell to carry oxygen and gives your blood its red color
What is hemoglobin
The blood type that has no antigen recognized by other blood types and therefore is safe to be transfused regardless of your blood type
What is universal donor blood
The veins and venules do this action
What carries deoxygenated blood back to the heart
These hormones (chemical messengers) cause your heart to beat and breath faster when there is an emergency
What is epinephrine (aka adrenaline)
Read Colossians 1:20
...and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, my making peace through his blood, shed on the cross
These cells eat old red blood cells and take them to your liver and spleen to be processed for separating the waste from the nutrient to make new red blood cells in your bones
What is a phagocyte
Another characteristic of RBCs is Rhesus blood marker (like a flag on a red blood cell) is either + or -. A person with + can give blood to another person with + or -. A person with - rhesus factor can only give to another - rhesus factor.
What is Rh+ and Rh-
The Universal donor is 0+
These one cell thick vessels allow for movement of O2 & CO2 from where there is a little to where there is a lot (PROCESS CALLED DIFFUSION) and connection point between arteries & veins.
What are capillaries
The raising and lowering of heat in the body through outside and inside conditions
What is the blood Thermostat
Read Leviticus 17:11
"For the life of the flesh is in the blood..."
When we don't have enough iron and therefore an inability to produce enough red blood cells we can get this condition
What is anemia
Greek word meaning defense
What is apologia