The Heart
This is the number of chambers in the heart.
What is 4?
The three main blood vessels listed from biggest to smallest.
What are arteries, veins, and capillaries?
List the three types of blood cells.
What are white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets?
A blockage of blood flow to the heart.
What is a heart attack?
Blood cancer
What is leukemia?
What is the pericardium?
This is the name for the opening of a capillary.
What is the lumen?
Protein molecules in the blood are called this.
What is hemoglobin?
High blood pressure is called this.
What is hypertension?
What is hemophilia?
This is the average heart rate.
What is 80 beats per minute?
The smallest veins are called this.
What are venules?
A type of white blood cell that kills bacteria, fungi, and foreign debris.
What are neutrophils?
Bad cholesterol is known as this.
What is Low-Density Lipoprotein (LDL)?
A problem of not having enough healthy red blood cells or hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the body's tissues.
What is anemia?
This is the system that speeds up the heart.
What is the Parasympathetic nervous system?
The middle layer of artery walls is called this.
A type of white blood cell that fights viruses and produces antibodies.
What are lymphocytes?
Irregular beating of the heart is called this.
What is arrythmia?
A blood clot in a deep vein, especially in the legs.
What is deep vein thrombosis?
A leaky valve in the heart.
What is regurgitation?
A blood vessel that can be only one cell wide.
What is a capillary?
The blood is _____% red blood cells.
What is about 45%?
A condition where the right ventricle has to work too hard to pump blood to lungs that have been damaged.
What is pulmonary heart disease?
A disease that changes your red blood cells’ shape, turning round flexible discs into stiff and sticky cells that block blood flow.
What is sickle cell anemia?