Terms
The fluid portion of blood.
What is plasma?
The smallest blood vessels in the body.
What are capillaries?
The amount of blood in a human body.
What is 4-6 liters?
The flap of tissue that allows the atria to expand.
What are the auricles?
The universal donor blood type.
What is O neg?
The function of erythrocytes.
What is to carry O2?
The definition of Thrombus.
What is a blood clot?
The formed elements of the blood.
What are the red blood cells, white blood cells and cell fragments (platlets)?
This area of the heart pumps blood to the body and is thick walled.
What is the left ventricle?
Where blood goes after it leaves the right atrium.
What is the right ventricle?
The function of leukocytes.
What is to fight infection or foreign invaders?
What the RBC does not have that other cells do.
What is a nucleus?
The number of O2 molecules a RBC can carry.
What are 4?
This thick wall of tissue divides the right heart from the left.
What is the inter ventricular septum?
The life span of RBCs.
What is 4 months?
The phase in which the heart is contracting.
What is systolic?
The definition of viscosity.
What is how fluid it is (how thick it is or its resistance to flow)?
The pH range of blood.
What is 7.35-7.45?
The valve that is between the left atrium and the left ventricle.
What is the bicuspid or left AV valve?
The flow of blood starting with the vena cava.
What is from the VC to the RA through tricuspid to RV through semilunar valve to pulmonary artery to lungs to pulmonary vein to LA through bicuspid valve to LV through aortic semilunar valve to aorta to body?
The definition of hemostasis.
What is the process by which the body stops blood loss?
The definition of platelets.
What are the cell fragments that enable blood to clot?
The 3 stages of hemostasis.
What are vasoconstriction, platelet plug and coagulation?
The tough tissue that attaches to the valves like string.
What is the chordae tendonae?
The 3 stages of coagulation.
What are tissue damage-Prothombinase produced
thrombin is made
fibrin is made?