Chapter 9 The Circulatory System Flashcards
One Celled Organism
lives in an aqueous environment. This environment has food and oxygen necessary to maintain the life of the cell and into it the cell excretes the waste products of its metabolism. Cell died if removed from this environment.
Cells of Multicellular Organisms
They also depend on a fluid environment. Their environment is the body’s tissue fluid, an intercellular material that provides for their needs. Without the tissue fluid the cell would die.
Tissue Fluid
part of the body’s internal environment, yet far removed from the external environment from which it must receive the materials to sustain life of the cell. The bridge between the external and internal environments are the circulatory system.
Circulatory System
consists of the heart as a pump, and an extensive network of tubes throughout the body which contain a fluid for the transportation of essential substances to and from the cells of the body, and the removal of various waste substances to and from these cells. The circulatory system is frequently divided into the blood vascular system, which includes the blood, hearts, and blood vessels; and the lymphatic system which includes the lymph, lymph vessels and lymph nodes.
The study of the Circulatory System
angiology
The functions of the Circulatory System
- Transportation
- Regulation
- Protection
Transportation in the Circulatory System
the blood involves the movement of all the substances necessary for cellular metabolism throughout the circulatory system.
What does blood transport?
- Respiratory gases (oxygen and carbon dioxide)
- Nutritive Substances
- Waste Products
- Excessive water and certain salts
Regulation in the Circulatory System
the blood involves maintaining the pH of the body through buffers dissolved in the blood and amino acids of proteins. The circulatory system in conjunction with the urinary system regulates the amount of water and salts in the blood. The integumentary system along with the circulatory system help maintain. the bodys temperature by the dispersion of heat fro the muscles to the body.
Protection in the Circulatory System
the blood involves the circulatory systems ability to respond to injury as well as the ability to defend against forgein substances in the body. The clotting mechanism protects against loss of blood, while white blood cells (leukocytes) are specialized to fight off infections
Hematology
the study of blood
What is blood?
blood is a highly specialized viscous connective tissue that circulates through the blood vascular system. It contains 3 types of blood cells or formed elements which are suspended in a liquid called plasma
Characteristics of blood
Blood is red due to the presence of blood cells which contain hemoglobin, specialized oxygen carrying pigmented protein. The normal temperature of blood is 38°C or 100.3°F. The specific gravity of blood is between 1.041 and 1.067. Water has a specific gravity of one. It’s viscosity (residence to flow) is 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 times that of water. The pH or hydrogen ion concentration is 7.352 7.4 which makes blood slightly alkaline in nature blood volume is between 5 to 6 quarts for the average adult or 8.52 to 9.0% of bodyweight.
What two components is blood made up of?
Blood is made up of two basic components, a clear straw, colored liquid called plasma, and a collection of minute solid particles that are referred to collectively as formed elements, blood cells or corpuscles.
What is plasma?
A clear straw colored liquid that is part of the blood. Contains 92%-95% water and 5%-8% of dissolved components. Plasma with all clotting factors removed is called serum.
What are corpuscles?
A collection of minute solid particles
What are corpuscles made of?
These formed elements include three kinds of blood cells, erythrocytes , or red blood cells, leukocytes, or white blood cells, and thrombocytes or platelets
What percent of the body is blood volume?
Blood volume in the body is about 45% the remaining 55% is liquid plasma containing important blood proteins such as serum albumin, serum globulin, fibrinogen, and other dissolved substances
What are red blood cells and what do they do?
Red blood cells or erythrocytes are tiny bi concave discs that lose their nuclei before entering the bloodstream their primary function is the transport of oxygen and carbon dioxide. Red blood cells have a life expectancy ranging up to about 120 days when blood cells breakdown the hemoglobin they contain is converted into other substances by the body.
What is hemoglobin?
Hemoglobin is found in the red blood cells and is what gives them their red color due to the presence of iron.
Heme- pigment containing iron
Globin- a protein
What is bilirubin?
A reddish, brown pigmented substance that results from hemoglobin breakdown. Some of the bilirubin may undergo further chemical changes, and be converted into a greenish pigmented substance called biliverden. these pigments are eliminated by the liver, stored in the gallbladder and secreted into the small intestine as needed to aid in the digestive process. When the liver or ducts become diseased or fail to operate properly excessive quantities of these pigments may build up in the bloodstream causing jaundice.
What are white blood cells?
White blood cells, or leukocytes or spherical cells that contain nuclei of burying shapes and sizes their primary function is defense against infection in the body. They may even leave the blood vascular system to fight infections in the tissues of the body. They very in size but are larger than red blood cells averaging about 10 µm in diameter. Their numbers range from 4300 to 10,800 per millimeters cubed of blood.
What are the five different kinds of blood cells? Leukocytes are divided into?
Grouped into two categories by the characteristics of their cytoplasm
Granulocytes (contain small granules) - neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils
Agranulocytes (don’t contain granules) -
lymphocytes and monocytes