circulatory Flashcards
• Functions to transport vital materials such as oxygen, nutrients, and waste products including carbon dioxide, hormones, defense elements, and ells involved in wound healing.
Vascular system
what consists circulatory system?
heart and vessels
a set of channels that begin in the tissue spaces and return excess tissue fluid to the bloodstream.
lymphatic vessels
• Transports blood from the right ventricle through the pulmonary arteries to the lungs for the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide and returns it to the left atrium of the heart through the pulmonary veins.
Pulmonary Circulation
Transports blood from the left ventricle through the aorta to all parts of the body and returns it to the right atrium through the superior and inferior venae cavae and the cardiac veins.
Systemic Circulation
when there’s decrease oxygen, it would vasodilate
Hypoxic vasodilation
where does Hypoxic vasodilation occur?
Systemic Circulation
A hollow, muscular, four-chambered organ that pumps blood to two seperate circulatory loops, the pulmonary circulation and the systemic circulation.
Heart
what is the pacemaker of the heart?
sinoatrial node
Receives oxygenated blood from the right and left coronary arteries, which arise from the __ __
ascending aorta
Describe systemic circulation process
○ Left atrium - mitral/ bicuspid valve - left ventricle - aortic valve - aorta
Describe pulmonary circulation process
○ Right atrium - tricuspid valve - right ventricle- pulmonary valve - pulmonary artery
- Carry blood to the lungs, where carbon dioxide is exchanged for oxygen.
- Carry blood to the intestines, where nutritive materials in fluid form are absorbed, and to the endocrine glands, where hormones pass through the vessel walls and are distributed to target cells.
- Transport the waste products of tissue fluid to the kidneys, intestines, lungs, and skin, where they are excreted.
Blood Vessels
4 types of blood vessels
arteries, veins, capillaries, and sinusoids.
what are the parts of an artery?
tunica intima, tunica media, tunica externa/adventitia