Parts of the Heart
This word means "relating to the heart"
What is Coronary?
Blood vessels are the _________ that carry blood throughout your body
What are pipes
The system that is responsible for bringing oxygen into the body is called what.
What is the respiratory system?
I am the largest artery in the whole body
What is Aorta?
William Harvey was born in what year?
What is 1578?
The smallest veins are called this.
What are venules?
All Blood Vessels are linked together. This creates the ___________. ________________. throughout your body
What is Transport System?
This passes through the capillary walls into the surrounding cells
What is Oxygen?
These spread out from arterioles into a web
What are capillaries?
William Harvey specialized with what system of the body?
What is the circulatory system?
Like the heart, ___________ have valves that keep the blood from flowing backwards.
What are veins?
Carries blood from the heart to all parts of the body
This passes into the capillaries and is carried away by blood.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
Carries the blood back to the heart
What are veins?
Harvey was the first to say the heart was a what in the body?
What is a pump?
The 2 largest veins of the body are __________ and _____________.
What are Superior Vena Cava and Inferior Vena Cava?
These connect all arteries and veins
What are capillaries?
The pulmonary artery carries this kind of oxygenated blood.
What is oxygen depleted?
The vena cava are about this large.
What is 2.5cm?
People assumed that William Harvey was _______ for his perception of the circulatory system.
What is crazy?
The first capillaries ever seen were observed by this.
This artery carries blood to the lungs
What is Pulmonary Artery?
This was the biggest misconception in the 1500s and 1600s.
What is air flowed through arteries and veins?
These can only be seen with a microscope
What are capillaries?
His ________ became the basis for all modern day research on the heart and blood vessels.