Formed Elements
This is the anatomic name for red blood cells.
What are erythocytes?
The name for blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart
What is artery?
This the fibrous sac that surrounds the heart
What is the pericardium?
The general route of conduction is from this chamber to that chamber
What is right atrium to left ventricle?
"Normal" blood pressure for an average sized male
What is 120/80?
Blood contains the highest number of this formed element
What are RBCs or erythrocytes?
These vessels serve as the site for nutrition & waste exchange
What is capillary?
This valve separates the right atrium from the right ventricle
What is the tricuspid?
The anatomic name for the pacemaker
What is the sinoatrial node?
The major influence on venous flow
What is skeletal muscle contraction?
This formed element has several varieties of granular and agranular cells
What are leukocytes or WBCs?
The name of the smaller vessels that carry blood out of the capillary beds
What is a venule
This is the common term for both valves between ventricles & arteries
What is semilunar?
This is the name of the fibrils that stimulate contraction of the ventricular walls
What are the Purkinje fibers?
What is arterial recoil or rebound?
This special molecule on RBCs is how they carry oxygen
The anatomic name for the opening in the middle of a blood vessel
What is lumen?
This heart chamber pumps blood into the aortic artery
What is the left ventricle?
This is the anatomic name for the bundle of His that also describes its general location
What is the atrioventricular bundle?
The anatomic name for platelets
What are thrombocytes?
These are the two structural features that distinguish veins from arteries
What are one-way valves and thinner muscular layer?
This chamber receives blood returning to the heart from systemic circulation
What is the right atrium?
This term describes cardiac muscle by its ability to pass action potentials from one fiber to another
What is autorhythmic?