Heart
The number of chambers your heart has
What are four chambers?
The blood cells that carry oxygen throughout the body
What are red blood cells?
The blood vessel that brings blood towards the heart.
What are veins?
The common name for hypertension
What is High Blood Pressure?
The colour of your blood
What is red?
The side of your heart that is responsible for oxygen-poor blood.
What is the right side of you heart?
The blood cells that fight infection
What are white blood cells?
The blood vessel that takes blood away from the heart
What are arteries?
That disease that occurs when the heart valves don't open or close properly
What is Cardiac Valve Disease?
The organ that your blood is sent to in order to retrieve oxygen
What are the lungs?
The names of the upper and lower chambers of your heart
What is the atrium and ventricle?
The number of components that make up your blood.
What are 4 components?
The three main types of blood vessels
What are veins, arteries and capillaries?
A chest pain that is caused by reduced blood flow to the heart
What is Angina?
The part of the body that the Superior Vena Cava (SVC) retrieves deoxygenated blood from
What is the upper body?
The passage ways that open and close in your heart which also prevent back flow of blood
What are heart valves?
The amount of blood an average heart pumps in a day (In gallons)
What is 2000 gallons?
The largest blood vessel in the body
What is the Aorta?
A disease in which there are weak spots in your arteries that become inflamed.
What is Aneurysms?
The heart valve that brings blood from your right atrium to your right ventricle
What is the Tricuspid Valve?
The names of the 4 heart valves
What are the Pulmonary, Mitral, Tricuspid, and aortic Valves?
The names of the four main components of your blood
What are Plasma, Platelets, Red Blood Cells, and White Blood Cells?
The vein that brings deoxygenated blood from your lower body to your heart
What is the Inferior Vena Cava (IVC)?
A heart disease that results when the heart or blood vessels near the heart don't develop normally before birth.
What is Congenital Cardiac Defect?
The artery that takes blood from your heart to your lungs to retrieve oxygen
What is the pulmonary artery?