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The Heart
Blood
Blood Vessels
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The number of chambers in the human heart.
What is 4?
100
The number of different types of blood cells.
What is three?
100
The 2 types of blood vessels
What are arteries and veins?
100
a portal between heart chambers that lets blood through.
What is a valve?
100
When a surgeon adds a section of vein taken from elsewhere in the body to go around a blocked section of artery.
What is a coronary bypass?
200
The main job of the heart.
What is to move the blood around the body through the blood vessels?
200
The type of blood cell that defends the body from disease and intruders.
What are white blood cells?
200
The kind of blood vessel that carries clean blood to the body.
What is an artery?
200
Microscopic individual units that all living things are made of.
What are cells?
200
The name for a chemical in food that blocks the arteries.
What is cholesterol?
300
The number of miles blood travels through the human body.
What is 60,000 miles?
300
The type of blood cells that carry oxygen and carbon dioxide around the body.
What are red blood cells?
300
The kind of blood vessel that carries dirty blood away from the body.
What is a vein?
300
a tube in the body that carries blood.
What is an artery.
300
A deposit of cholesterol that builds up in the arteries and blocks blood flow.
What is plaque?
400
The number of times an adult heart beats in one minute.
What is 70-100?
400
The type of blood cells that repair wounds in the body.
What are platelets?
400
The blood vessels that are so small, they only let one cell through at a time.
What is a capillary?
400
to swallow or cover something.
What is engulf?
400
When the brain is damaged from not getting enough oxygen.
What is a stroke?
500
The number of times a child's heart beats in one minute.
What is 90-120 times?
500
The name of the golden liquid that blood cells float around in.
What is plasma?
500
The place that blood vessels go to get more oxygen.
What is the lungs?
500
to insert or put in place.
What is implant?
500
Small fibers that are released from platelets and form a clot to repair wounds.
What is fibrin?