Red Blood Cells
Red blood cells are responsible for carrying a particular molecule to organs and tissues.
What is oxygen?
Leukocytes is a Latin term
What is white blood cells?
There are x amount of chambers in the heart.
What are 4 chambers?
The color of arteries.
What is red?
The color of veins?
What is blue?
Red blood cells carry this particular molecule back to the lungs
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)?
Irregularly shaped cell, critical for blood clotting and wound healing.
What are platelets?
The right atrium holds a certain type of blood.
What is deoxygenated blood?
Blood that is carried in arteries.
What is oxygenated blood?
Blood carried in veins.
What is deoxygenated?
Hemoglobin plus this atom turns RBCs red.
What are oxygen atoms?
White blood cells have one job.
What is defend against disease?
The left ventricle holds this type of blood.
What is oxygenated blood?
The tissue that resists pressure.
What are elastic fibers?
1 layer thick and allows for diffusion of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
What are capillaries?
Hemoglobin binds x amount of oxygen atoms.
What are 4 oxygen atoms?
Antigen-presenting white blood cell that matures into macrophages.
What is monocyte?
Blood going backward in the heart is not good.
What are the valves?
The tissues that increase or decrease the diameter of the lumen.
What are smooth muscles?
Prevent the backflow of blood in veins.
What are the valves?
Red blood cells lose this during maturity.
What is the nucleus?
Part of the inflammatory response, when stained has large granules and appears deep purple
What is basophil?
The pulmonary artery is transporting blood too.
What are the lungs?
The 3 layers of the blood vessels.
What is the tunica interna?
What is the tunica media?
What is the tunica externa?
What are varicose veins?