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Blood Flashcards

1
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What is the heart made out of?

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Muscles

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2
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What is the hearts purpose?

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  • To maintain preasure
  • to deliver oxygen
  • to deliver nutrients
  • to deliver heat
  • to deliver hormones
  • to devliver immune cells
  • to get rid of waste
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3
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What are the 4 chambers is the heart

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The right atrium
The left atrium
The right ventricle
The left ventricle

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4
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What are the 4 valves in the chambers

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Tricuspid
Bicuspid
Pulmonary
Aortic

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5
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What does the Altria’s do

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Receive deoxygenated blood

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6
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What does the ventricles do

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Pump the blood away

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7
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What does the right ventricle receive

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Deoxygenated blood

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8
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What blood does the left ventricle receive

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Oxygenated blood

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9
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What does the septum do

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Prevents the blood from mixing together

It’s a wall

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10
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How many valves does the tricuspid valve have

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3 - tri

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11
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How many valves does the bicuspid valves have

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2 - bi

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12
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The valves stop the blood from flowing….?

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Backwards

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13
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What do veins do

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Carry blood TOWARDS the heart

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14
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What do arteries do

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They carry blood AWAY from the heart

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15
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What do capillaries do

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transfers the blood between arteries and veins

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16
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What is bruising

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Internal bleeding

17
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How many letters of blood comes in and out of the heart

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7,500L

18
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How many leaters of blood does the body have

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5L

19
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What is blood preasure?

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The measurement of strain your arteries feel as your heart moves blood around

20
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What blood does Pulmonary arteries carry

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deoxygenated blood

21
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What blood does pulmonary veins carry

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Oxygenated blood

22
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Where does the pulmonary arteries take the blood to

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The lungs

23
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Where does the pulmonary veins take the blood

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To the heart

24
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What is the largest vein in your body

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The vena cava

25
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What do the red blood cells do

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Deliver nutrients
Deliver oxygen
Carry away waste
Maintain blood preasure

26
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What shape are red blood cells

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They are ovals with a biconcave top to collect oxygen in

27
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Red blood cells are what percent hemoglobin

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97%

28
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What is the blood stream made up of

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Red blood cells
White blood cells
Platelets
Plasma

29
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What are white blood cells purposes

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Kills germs and infection and bad bacteria

30
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What do platelets do

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Clot up blood

31
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What is homeostasis

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The process of clotting blood

32
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What is plasma

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The watery fluid that the blood cells float in

33
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How much (percentage) is plasma made up of water

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90%

34
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Ow much (percentage) does plasma make up the blood stream

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50%

35
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What does plasma carry that provides energy or oxygen

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Haemoglobin

36
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What is haemoglobin

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Is the divit in the middle of the red blood cell that is responsible for transporting oxygen

It has one iron atom

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