Blood
These three components make up formed elements in the blood.
What are erythrocytes, leukocytes, and platelets?
This is the term used to describe inflammation of the hearts muscle tissue.
What is myocarditis?
This is the term for a heart rate greater than 100 bpm.
What is tachycardia?
These single-layer, thin blood vessels are the site of exchange for oxygen, nutrients, wastes and more!
What are capillaries?
This is used to measures electrical activity of the heart.
Electrocardiogram (ECG, EKG)
91% of plasma is this.
What is water?
This cardiac node is also known as the "pacemaker."
What is the Sinoatrial (SA) node?
This is the normal WBC lab value range for an adult.
What is 5,000 to 10,000?
(count per cubic millimeter)
This term completes the following sequence in systemic blood flow: Artery -> Arteriole -> Capillary -> ______ -> Vein.
What is venule?
This separates the lower chambers of the heart from each other.
What is interventricular septum?
This blood type is known as the "universal donor."
What is type O blood?
What term is used to describe the most common combination of four specific defects associated with congenital heart disease?
This is how long it takes to complete one cardiac cycle on average for an adult at rest.
0.8 seconds
The body's longest vein is this term.
What is the saphenous vein?
These are specialized connections that join heart muscle cells tightly together, allowing for electrical signals to pass quickly from one cell to the next.
What are intercalated disks?
Pernicious anemia involves a lack of this vitamin.
What is Vitamin B12?
This is where blood flows after passing through the mitral valve.
What is the left ventricle?
This is the math equation needed to determine cardiac output (CO).
What is CO = Stroke Volume (SV) x Heart Rate (HR)
These two large veins drain the systemic blood vessels and empty into the right atrium.
What are the superior and inferior vena cava?
This condition involves narrowing of lumens due to plaque within the vessel wall.
What is atherosclerosis?
This organ synthesizes (makes) most plasma proteins.
What is the liver?
Deoxygenated blood moves from the right ventricle, through a valve and into this blood vessel.
What is the pulmonary artery?
The normal platelet count ranges from _____ to _____ /mcL of blood.
What is 150,000 - 450,000 /mcL of blood.
This circulation system brings blood from organs in the abdomen to be processed in the liver before sending it back to heart.
What is the hepatic portal circulation?
This iron-containing protein transports oxygen.
What is hemoglobin?