Parts of the Circulatory System
Carries blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
Fluid portion of blood that is about 90% water.
What is plasma?
Name for the throat.
What is pharynx?
The process of breathing in air.
What is inspiration?
Leading cause of cancer death and most common type of cancer worldwide.
What is lung cancer?
Blood in the right ventricle.
What is deoxygenated?
Thrombocytes, which are important for blood clotting, are also called this.
What are platelets?
Tiny, hairlike structures that filter inhaled air to trap dust and other particles.
What are cilia?
Controls our respiratory center (in the brain).
What is the medulla oblongata?
Heart muscles do not beat adequately to supply the blood needs of the body.
What is congestive heart failure?
Bottom chambers of the heart.
What are ventricles?
The main function of these blood cells are to fight off infection.
What are leukocytes or white blood cells?
Lined with mucous membranes that warms and moistens air as it is breathed in.
What are sinuses?
If we have an increased amount of this in blood stream, our respiratory center will increase the rate of respiration.
What is carbon dioxide?
Chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways where bronchospasms narrow the opening of the bronchioles.
What is asthma?
Valve between the left atrium and left ventricle.
What is the mitral or bicuspid valve?
These blood cells contain the protein hemoglobin.
What are erythrocytes or red blood cells?
These air sacs allow oxygen and carbon dioxide to be exchanged between the blood and the lungs.
What are alveoli?
This stage of respiration involves the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the lungs and bloodstream.
What is external respiration?
Highly contagious viral infection of the upper respiratory system.
What is influenza (flu)?
These connect arterioles to venules.
What are capillaries?
When hemoglobin that is in red blood cells carry this, it gives blood its red color.
What is oxygen?
Membrane that each lung is enclosed in.
What is the pleura?
The exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen between the tissue cells and the bloodstream.
What is internal respiration?
Blockage in the coronary arteries that cuts off blood supply to the heart.
What is a myocardial infarct, MI, or heart attack?