Parts of the Circulatory System
The names of the four chambers of the heart.
What are the right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, left ventricle.
The type of blood vessel carries blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
The type of blood cell that carries oxygen.
What are red blood cells?
The condition where blood flow is blocked to the heart.
What is heart attack?
What is the right side?
The circulatory system is composed of these three things.
What is blood, blood vessels, and the heart?
The type of blood vessel that carries blood to the heart.
What are veins?
The type of blood cell that fights against infection.
What are white blood cells?
The condition where blood flow is blocked to the brain?
What is stroke?
Blood from the bottom half of the body enters through into the heart from this vein.
What is the inferior vena cava?
What are carbon dioxide and oxygen?
The type of blood vessel connects arteries to the veins.
What are capillaries?
The type of blood cell that helps to seal wounds by producing blood clots.
What are platelets?
The condition when fatty deposits build up on the inside walls of arteries.
What is atherosclerosis?
Oxygenated blood exits the heart and is sent to the rest of the body through this vessel.
What is the aorta?
What is cardiac muscle?
What is one cell thick?
Where are red blood cells made?
Where is inside bone marrow?
What are sleep, diet, and exercise?
What are the pulmonary arteries?
This is the part of the heart that sends electrical impulses responsible for making the heartbeat.
What is the sinoatrial node.
This type of condition occurs when valves inside of blood vessels do not work properly, and blood pools in one place (commonly seen on legs)
What are varicose or spider veins?
How many days are red blood cells in circulation before they die?
What is 120 days?
The condition where your blood is unable to clot properly
What is hemophilia?
The __________ valve separates the right atrium from the right ventricle, and the ___________ valve separates the left atrium from the left ventricle.