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Circulatory System Flashcards

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4 main components of blood?

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Plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets

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Plasma

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  • Roughly 55% of blood
  • Yellowish liquid
  • Carries nutrients, hormones and protein
  • Carries all components of blood throughout your body
  • Cannot carry oxygen
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Red blood cells

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  • Carries oxygen from your lungs to the body and CO2 to your lungs
  • Contains haemoglobin (a pigment that binds 4 oxygen molecules)
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White blood cells

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  • Fights infection by engulfing disease microbes and digesting the microbes
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Platelets

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  • Prevents bleeding by forming blood clots
  • Signal is sent by body to platelets allowing them to travel to location of bleeding
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Types of blood vessels

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  • Veins
  • Arteries
  • Capillaries
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Layers of blood vessels

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  • Tunica externa (tunica adventitia)
  • Tunica media
  • Tunica intima
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Tunica externa (tunica adventitia)

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  • Outermost layer of blood vessel
  • Provides protection
  • Made up of connective tissues that contain collagen fibers
  • Found in arteries and veins but not capillaries
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Tunica media

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  • Middle layer
  • Thickest layer
  • Thicker in arteries than veins
  • Contains smooth muscle cells and connective tissue
  • Found in arteries and veins but not capillaries
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Tunica intima

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  • Innermost layer
  • Consists of flat epithelial cells
  • Can provide structural support to larger blood vessels
  • Found in arteries, veins, capillaries
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Blood vessels that serve the heart

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  • Aorta
  • Pulmonary Trunk
  • Pulmonary Vein
  • Superior Vena Cava
  • Inferior Vena Cava
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Aorta

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  • An artery that transfers blood from the heart throughout the body
  • Blood leaves the heart through the aortic valve, passes the aortic arch which delivers blood to the upper body
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Pulmonary trunk

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  • An artery that transports deoxygenated blood from the heart towards lungs
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Pulmonary vein

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  • Transfers oxygen-rich blood from the lungs to the heart
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Superior vena cava

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  • A vein that carries oxygen-depleted blood from the upper body to the right atrium
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Inferior vena cava

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  • A vein that carries oxygen-depleted blood from the lower body to the right atrium
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Chambers of the heart

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  • Right atrium
  • Right ventricle
  • Left atrium
  • Left ventricle
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Right atrium

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  • Top right chamber
  • Receives blood low in oxygen from veins and empties it into the right ventricle
  • Main vessels that enter are Superior Vena Cava and Inferior Vena Cava veins
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Left atrium

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  • Receives oxygen rich blood from the lungs and pumps into the left ventricle
  • Main vessel is pulmonary veins, 2 on either side of the heart
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Right ventricle

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  • After receiving blood low in oxygen, right ventricle pumps this blood into the lungs to regain energy
  • Blood leaves via the pulmonary valve to the pulmonary artery
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Left ventricle

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  • Pumps oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the rest of the body
  • Blood leaves via aortic valve to the aorta where it is transported across the body
  • Wall is the thickest out of all 4 chambers
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Layers of walls of the heart

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  • Endocardium
  • Myocardium
  • Epicardium
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Endocardium

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  • Innermost and thinnest layer of heart
  • Lines the chambers of the heart
  • Cells are similar to cells that line blood vessels (endothelial)
  • Provides protection to valves and heart chambers
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Myocardium

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  • Middle and thickest layer of the heart
  • Specialised type of muscle tissue that forms the heart
  • Contracts and releases to keep the heart pumping blood to the body
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Epicardium

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  • Outermost layer of the heart
  • The thin layer on the surface of the heart
  • Layer of elastic connective tissue and fat
  • Serves as an additional layer of protection for the heart
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Valve

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Similar to doors that allow blood to flow, ensures time and direction is right

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4 main valves of the heart

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  • Tricuspid valve
  • Pulmonary valve
  • Mitral valve
  • Aortic valve
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Tricuspid valve

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  • Contains 3 thin tissue flaps (leaflets)
  • Between right chambers of the heart
  • Allows blood flow from right atrium to right ventricle
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Pulmonary valve

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  • Contains 3 thin tissue flaps (leaflets)
  • Between right ventricle and pulmonary artery
  • Allows blood to be delivered to the lungs
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Mitral valve

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  • Contains 2 thin tissue flaps (leaflets)
  • Between left chambers of the heart
  • Allows blood flow from left atrium to left ventricle
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Aortic valve

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  • Contains 3 thin tissue flaps (leaflets)
  • Between left ventricle and aorta
  • Allows blood flow in the right direction from left ventricle to aorta to rest of body
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Cardiac cycle

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Pressure changes within the heart that allows blood movement through heart chambers and body

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Events in the cardiac cycle

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  • Diastole
  • Systole
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Diastole

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  • Heart relaxes causing blood to pool in the heart
  • Lasts roughly 0.5-0.7 seconds
  • Generally causes blood pressure to rise
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Systole

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  • Heart contracts which squeezes out blood collecting during diastole stage
  • Lasts roughly 0.1 seconds
  • Forces blood to leave through veins
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Veins

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Pumps blood to the heart from the body

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Arteries

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Pumps blood from the heart to the body

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Capillaries

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Form connection between veins and arteries

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Double circulation system

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  • Pulmonary circulation
  • Systemic circulation
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Pulmonary circulation

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  • Between heart and lungs
  • Done by right side chambers
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Systematic circulation

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  • Between heart and rest of the body
  • Done by left side chambers
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Journey of blood

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  • Deoxygenated blood is taken to right chambers
  • Then taken to lungs to be oxygenated
  • Then taken to left chambers where it is transported to the aorta artery
  • Taken throughout the body where it becomes deoxygenated
  • Taken to right chambers again

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