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Proteins that recognize and destroy foreign material
What is antibodies?
100
The largest blood vessel in the body is the
What is aorta?
100
Oxygen-poor blood carries the waste product
What is carbon dioxide?
100
Blood that is carrying oxygen is said to be
What is oxygen-rich?
100
What is the main job of the circulatory system?
What is transport?
200
What type of cells need the most oxygen?
What is brain cells?
200
The liquid portion of blood is called
What is plasma?
200
This happens when the blood flow to the brain is interrupted
What is stroke?
200
What are three lifestyle choices that will maintain a healthy heart?
What is exercise, eating healthy, and not smoking?
200
Small cell fragments important to blood clotting
What is platelets?
300
The heart's rhythm is controlled by the
What is pacemaker?
300
Formation of a hard plug at the site of damage to blood vessels?
What is clotting?
300
Type of cell that can surround and engulf bacteria
What is white blood cell?
300
The rhythmic beat felt in arteries
What is blood pressure?
300
The most plentiful cells in the blood
What is red blood cells?
400
High blood pressure; also known as the silent killer
What is hypertension?
400
Clear, yellowish portion of blood
What is plasma?
400
Main organ of the circulatory system?
What is heart?
400
Small thin-walled blood vessels that connect veins and arteries
What is capillaries?
400
Vessels that return blood back to the heart
What is veins?
500
Pressure of the artery walls during heart beat and at rest
What is pulse?
500
Flaps of tissue that direct blood flow in one direction
What is valves?
500
Thick walled muscular blood vessels that take blood AWAY from the heart
What is arteries?
500
Disease where cholesterol forms deposits on inside walls of blood vessels
What is atherosclerosis?
500
The organs where blood picks up oxygen?
What is lungs?