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23-1 And 23-2 Flashcards

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What is the size of your heart

A

Fist

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What are the five parts of the cardiovascular system

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Heart blood arteries veins capillaries

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Where is the heart

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Center of the chest below the sternum

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What type of tissue is the heart made of

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Cardiac muscle

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What type of blood is artery

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Oxygenated

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What is the universal type of blood

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O

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What’s the difference between antigen and antibody

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Antigen on the cell and determines blood type

Antibody floating around the cell and kill pathogens

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What’s the difference between superior and inferior vena cava

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Superior has deoxygenated from upper body to heart and inferior carries deoxygenated blood from lower body to heart

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What do arteries do

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Send blood away from heart to body

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What does the right atrium do

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It pumps blood into aorta to be carried to body

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Veins do

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Carry blood to heart

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Capillaries do

A

Carry oxygen to cells and takes away co2 and wastes

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Aorta

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Carries oxygenated blood to body

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Right atrium

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Collects deox from the body

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Pulmonary valve

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Prevents blood from going to right atrium

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Right ventricle

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Pumps blood to pulmonary artery

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Pulmonary artery

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Carries deoxygenated blood to the lungs

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Pulmonary vein

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Oxygenated blood to the heart from the lungs

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Left atrium

A

Collects oxygenated blood from lungs

19
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Aortic valve

A

Prevents blood from going into left ventricle

20
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Left ventricle

A

Pumps blood to body

21
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The superior and inferior do what

A

Bring deox blood to right atrium

22
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Right atrium pumps into

A

Right ventricle

23
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Right ventricle does what

A

Pumps doex blood to pulmonary artery and ten to lungs

24
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What happens after the blood gets oxygenated

A

Exits lungs and goes to left atrium through pulmonary vein

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Left atrium does what

A

Pumps to left ventricle

26
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Left ventricle pumps to

A

Aorta

27
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What does aorta do

A

Carries blood to body then goes to arteries that goes to capillary that exchanges materials

28
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After discussion the blood goes where

A

Blood returns to veins then to vena cava and then heart

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Red blood cells

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  • oxygen
  • hemoglobin with iron
  • no nucleus
  • lives for 120 days
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White blood cells

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  • kill pathogens
  • make antibodies
  • Have nucleus
  • can leave bloodstream
  • 1 for every 500 red blood cells
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Platelets

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  • Clot bleeding
  • fibers pull
  • lack in hemophiliacs
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Plasma has

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Nutrient water hormones proteins but gets rid of waste

33
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Pulmonary circulation

A

Lung with heart

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Systematic circulation

A

Body with heart

35
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Atherosclerosis

A

Cholesterol builds up and blocks blood flow

36
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Hypertension

A

Abnormally high heart pressure

37
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Stroke

A

Blood vessel in brain gets stuck

38
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Heart attack

A

Heart muscle cells are die or heart muscle is damaged

39
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Heart failure

A

Cannot pump enough blood to support body

40
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Hemoglobin

A

Oxygen carrying protein

41
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Systolic pressure

A

Ventricle contract

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Diastolic pressure

A

Ventricles relax

Science 2014-2015 (7 decks)

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