The Heart
These are little doorlike flaps.
What are valves?
This helps with the clotting of the blood.
What is platelets?
This type of person (adult/child/infant) has about three quarts of blood.
What is a child?
This gives red blood cells their color.
What is iron?
This is a practical way to keep your heart healthy.
What is exercise?
This is the largest artery in the body.
What is the aorta?
This is the liquid part of your blood.
What is plasma?
This part of the blood fights off infection.
What are white blood cells?
This is the expansion of arteries after each heartbeat.
What is a pulse?
This is a second practical way to keep your heart healthy.
What is (good) rest?
These are the two large veins that enter the heart.
What are the venae cavae?
This part of your blood carries digested food.
What is plasma?
This carries blood to your heart.
What are veins?
This is the pressure of the blood against the arteries.
What is blood pressure?
What is one full day?
These are the lower chambers of the heart.
What are the ventricles?
These are the smallest blood vessels.
What are capillaries?
Antibodies help to fight these off.
What are pathogens/germs/microbes?
Some call it a heart, others call it a....
What is cardiac muscle?
These are enlarged, painful veins.
What are varicose veins?
These are the upper chambers of the heart.
What are the atriums?
This supplies blood to the lungs.
What is the pulmonary artery?
This is a blood clot on your skin.
What is a scab?
This is the flow of blood throughout the body.
What is circulation?
This is how many miles of pipeline that the blood travels through in the body.
What is 60,000?