Cardiovascular 1
What is the name of the arteries that supply blood to the heart?
What are the 4 main components of blood?
RBC's, WBC's, Plasma, Platelets
What is the job of White blood cells in your body?
To fight off infections, bacteria, and diseases.
In what blood vessel does gas exchange occur?
Capillaries
What do platelets do in your body?
Help form blood clots when the body is damaged
Which side of the heart pumps blood to your lungs?
Right side
What is the scientific name for red blood cells that carry oxygen and carbon dioxide called?
Erythrocytes
What are white blood cells that help fight infection called?
Leukocytes
What is on the surface of red blood cells that determines blood type?
Antigens
Red blood cells are made here
Bone marrow
What are blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart called?
Arteries
What is the top number of your blood pressure reading called?
Systolic pressure
Someone who has Leukemia produces a large amount of abnormal white blood cells, why is this an issue?
overrides healthy blood cell production
What are the blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart called?
Veins
This protein carries oxygen in your red blood cells
Hemoglobin
What is the fluid portion of blood called?
Plasma
What are the smallest types of blood vessel?
Capillaries
Jerry is 183 cm tall and weighs 67 kg, what is his approximate blood volume to the nearest hundredths.
3.99L
What is the largest artery in the body?
Aorta
What is difference between arteries and veins?
Arteries - away from heart
Veins - towards heart
What is the complex protein on erythrocytes called?
Hemoglobin
What side of the heart has "blue" blood? Which side has "red" blood?
Right = Blue
Left = Red
What are the two numbers in your blood pressure reading, and what do they mean?
Systolic - Max pressure when heart contracts
Diastolic - Min pressure when heart is at rest.
Someone who is type O blood can donate to who?
Any other blood type
What is the highest % component in blood?
Plasma - 55%