Cardiovascular 1
What is the other name for the bicuspid valve?
Mitral Valve
Where are the antibodies found in the blood?
Blood Plasma
What antibodies do blood type AB have?
Neither A nor B
What is the valve between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery called?
Pulmonary semi-lunar valve
What is the valve between the left atrium and the left ventricle?
Bicuspid valve
What is the valve between the left ventricle and the aorta called?
Aortic semi-lunar valve
What are the red blood cells that carry oxygen and carbon dioxide called?
Erythrocytes
chronic 140/90
What is hypertension?
What are the blood cells that are also called platelets and are important for clotting called?
Thrombocytes
What are the smallest branches of arteries called?
Arterioles
What are blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart called?
Arteries
What is the period of ventricular contraction in the heart called?
Systole
What is the tissue that flows through the circulatory system called?
Blood
What are the blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart called?
Veins
What are the vessels that connect arterioles with venules and allow oxygen and nutrients to pass through to cells called?
Capillaries
What is the fluid portion of blood called?
Plasma
What are the smallest branches of veins called?
Venules
Tthe muscular wall that separates the heart into the right and left sides
what is the Interventricular septum
What is the largest artery in the body?
Aorta
What are the upper chambers of the heart called?
Atria
What is the complex protein on erythrocytes called?
Hemoglobin
If you are blood type O. What blood antibodies do you have?
A and B
What is the the lower chamber of the heart called?
Ventricle
What are the two largest veins in the body called?
Superior and inferior vena cava
What is the medical term for a heart attack?
Myocardial infarction