Heart Parts
This is the name given to the top two chambers of the heart.
This artery take blood to your head.
What is the carotid artery?
Red Blood Cells are produced here.
What is the red bone marrow or bone marrow?
Chest discomfort and difficulty breathing can be signs of this
What is a heart attack?
Doing this everyday will strengthen your heart.
What is exercise?
This is the name given to the lower chambers of the heart.
What is ventricles?
This is part of the largest artery in the body and transfers blood out of the left ventricle.
What is the ascending aorta?
Red blood cells carry this from the lungs to the other cells.
What is oxygen?
The first step if you believe someone is having a heart attack.
What is call 911?
Regular exercise can lower this.
What is blood pressure?
The two veins that bring deoxygenated blood back to the heart.
What are the Superior and Inferior Vena Cava?
This is the lower part of the largest artery. It takes blood down toward your legs.
What is the descending aorta?
Red Blood cells carry this from the cells back to the lungs for disposal.
What is carbon dioxide?
This method is used to keep a heart attack victim's blood circulating while waiting for help to arrive.
What is CPR? Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Exercise may lower blood pressure by increasing the number of these small blood vessels.
What are capillaries?
The main artery that takes refreshed blood away from the heart toward the rest of the body.
What is the Ascending Aorta?
These are the only arteries that carry deoxygenated blood from the heart into the lungs.
What are pulmonary arteries?
Red blood cells only live for about this many months.
What is four months?
The measurement of blood pressure when your heart pushes blood out.
What is systolic blood pressure?
People who do not get enough exercise live this kind of unhealthy lifestyle.
What is sedentary?
When you listen to your heartbeat, this is what you are actually hearing.
What are opening and closing heart valves?
Arteries take blood away from the heart. They branch out and get smaller and smaller until they reach this structure where oxygen may be diffused into cells.
What are capillaries?
This cell recycles worn out Red Blood Cells.
What is a phagocyte?
The measurement of blood pressure when your heart relaxes.
What is diastolic blood pressure?
What is plaque?