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heart
blood vessels
general info
blood
disease
100
The size of the heart is compared to that of what other body part.
What is your fist.
100
The largest artery in the body.
What is the aorta?
100
The circulatory system carries this material throughout your body.
What is blood?
100
A fluid in your blood that is 90 percent water.
What is plasma?
100
Diseases of the heart in general are often referred to as this.
What are cardiovascular diseases?
200
The largest vein in the body.
What is the vena cava?
200
The heartbeat sound is caused by the snapping shut of these.
What are the valves?
200
An iron containing protein in the blood.
What is hemoglobin?
200
Potential advice from a doctor if you have high blood pressure.
What is reducing salt, eating more sensibly and exercising regularly?
300
the tissue that separates the left and right side of the heart.
What is the septum?
300
These are extremely thin walled blood vessels that connect the arteries and veins.
What is capillaries?
300
The name of the top chambers of your heart and what their functions are.
What are the atria and they are the collecting chambers?
300
These blood particles help your blood clot if you get a cut.
What are platelets? They contain fibrin.
300
This disease is when the blood pressure goes up and remains above the normal level.
What is hypertension?
400
The heartbeat is controlled by an area of nerve tissue within the heart called....
What is the pacemaker?
400
These carry blood away from the heart and these carry blood back to the heart?
What are arteries and veins?
400
The bottom chambers of your heart and what their function is.
What are your ventricles and they are the pumping chambers?
400
These blood cells protect the body against attack by tiny invaders such as bacteria, viruses, or other foreign substances.
What are white blood cells?
400
The instrument used to measure a person's blood pressure.
What is a sphygmomanometer?
500
This side of your heart works 6 times harder than the other side, tell why.
What is the left side because it has to pump blood to every part of the body?
500
Bill Nye's metaphors for blood vessels.
What is the capillaries are like drive ways, the arteries are like highways and the veins are like streets.
500
Describe the blood before it enters the right atrium.
What is oxygen poor?
500
Red blood cells die at this rate per second.
What is 2 million?
500
Spell the disease which is a thickening of the inner walls of the artery.
What is atherosclerosis?