Coronary circulation is the flow of blood to the tissues of the?
What is the heart
100
What is the liquid part of blood consisting mostly of water?
What is plasma.
100
A system collecting fluid from body tissue spaces and returning it to the blood.
What is the lymphatic system.
100
List the blood type(s) that someone with type O can safely receive.
What is only O
200
What two organs does blood flow through in pulmonary circulation?
What is the heart and lungs
200
Another name for high blood pressure
What is hypertension
200
A chemical that can carry oxygen and carbon dioxide.
What is hemoglobin.
200
What is water and dissolved substances not taken by cells that remains between cells called?
What is lymph.
200
List the blood type(s) someone with type O can safely donate to.
What is A, B, AB, & O
300
Two lower chambers of the heart
What are ventricles
300
What are microscopic blood vessels connecting larger vessels?
What are capillaries
300
Where are red blood cells formed?
What is in bone marrow.
300
A type of white blood cell that helps fight infection.
What are lymphocytes.
300
Anemia is a disorder where there are too few of these in the blood.
What are red blood cells.
400
Blood vessels that move toward the heart
What are veins
400
This moves blood to all tissues except lungs and heart.
What is systemic circulation.
400
These fight bacteria and viruses.
What are white blood cells.
400
Large groups of lymph nodes are found where?
What are in tonsils, which protect the mouth and nose. Thymus, which produces lymphocytes, and in the spleen, which filters blood flowing through it.
400
Leukemia is a disease in which these are produced in great numbers.
What are white blood cells.
500
Blood vessels that move away from the heart
What are arteries
500
In systemic circulation, blood returns from your abdomen through the inferior vena cava to the?
What is right atrium.
500
These help your blood clot.
What are platelets.
500
This disease of the lymphatic system destroys helper T cells, which normally produce anti-bodies to fight infection, causing a person to become vulnerable to infection.
What is HIV
500
List the four major functions of blood.
1. It carries oxygen from your lungs to all body cells and removes carbon dioxide from your body cells and carries it to the lungs to be exhaled.
2. Is carries waste products of cell activity to your kidneys to be removed.
3. It transports nutrients from the digestive system to body cells.
4. Materials in blood fight infections and help heal wounds.