55% of blood is made of this non-living material.
What is plasma?
This element is found in RBCs that make it possible to transport oxygen from the lungs to the tissues in your body.
What is iron (Fe) or the heme group?
There are 3 major proteins in blood plasma. This protein is responsible for regulating osmotic pressure.
What is albumin?
_____ arteries are conducting arteries, _____ arteries are distributing arteries, _____ are resistance arteries, and _____ are capacitance vessels
What is elastic, muscular, arterioles, and veins?
_____: the process of stopping bleeding
What is hemostasis?
_____: the clumping of RBCs
What is agglutination?
_____: special sensory cells found in the aorta and carotid arteries that fire when there is an increase or decrease in blood pressure.
What are baroreceptors?
People with this blood type are known as universal donors.
What is Type O?
_____: when a fibrin clot is broken down.
What is fibrinolysis?
_____: the volume of blood flowing through a vessel, organ, or entire circulation in a given period (ml/min) _____: the force per unit area exerted on a vessel wall by the contained blood (mm Hg) _____: opposition to flow, the amount of friction blood encounters passing through a vessel
What is blood flow, blood pressure, & resistance?