Blood Flow
What carries un-oxygenated blood?
What is Veins?
What is the largest artery?
What disease is a weakened blood vessel wall?
What is an aneurysm
why are white blood cells needed ?
cells that fight off diseases that can harm the body.
What are the small, branch-like arteries?
What are Arterioles?
What carries oxygenated blood?
What is Arteries?
What is an Artery?
Tubes that carry oxygenated blood away from the heart (Except for the pulmonary artery, thanks Dominic)
What disease inflammation of the inner lining of the heart?
What is Endocarditis
why is oxygen needed ?
to help the body and to survive.
Which tubes seem blue, and which seem red? (Hint: look at your wrists)
Arteries are red, and veins are blue
Which Artery is different from the rest? (Hint: Acts like a vein)
What is Pulmonary Artery?
What tubes carry un-oxygenated blood towards the heart?
What are Veins?
Explain a heart murmur
A valve doesn't close entirely, blood falls back down the chamber it just went up
Name at least three nutrients does the heart need?
Sodium, potassium, and vitamins
What are Capillaries?
Thin walled things that allow nutrients, oxygen, and CO2 to move in and out of blood
What stops blood from falling back down to where it came from?
What is Valves?
About how many seconds does it normally take for blood to do a complete circuit?
~ twenty seconds
What is Myocarditis?
Inflammation of the heart muscle
Name the four hollow chambers of the heart
Right Atrium, Right Ventricle, Left Atrium, Left Ventricle
Name all three Heart Tissues
Endocardium, Myocardium, and Pericardium
Name all four valves
What is Tricuspid, Pulmonary Semi-Lunar, Mitral (Bicuspid), and Aortic Semi-Lunar?
What are three functions of the heart?
Transport blood, nutrients, oxygen, hormones, waste from cells, CO2, and damaged cells. Also fights diseases by sending out white blood cells
What disease causes an artery's walls to get thick and hard?
What is Arteriosclerosis
What are the waste removal cells of the heart?
What are Lysosomes?
What doctor specializes with cardiovascular conditions and diseases?
What is a Cardiologist?