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Circulatory System Flashcards

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What is the substance which is pumped through your circulatory system?

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Blood

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This chamber of the heart pumps blood to the lungs what is it?

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Right ventricle

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Small vessels which can only be one cell in diameter

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Capillaries

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What Is the muscular organ which pumps blood around the body?

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Heart

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What is the large artery which leaves the heart to carry blood to the rest of the body?

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Aorta

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What is the chamber of the heart that revives blood from the rest of the body

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Right atrium

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What structures ensure one way flow of blood through the circulatory system(making sure blood does not flow backwards)

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Valves

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What structures in the blood which are important in clotting

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Platelets

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What chamber of the heart pumps blood to the rest of the body?

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Left ventrical

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What vessel returns blood to the heart?

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Veins

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What blood cells carry oxygen within the blood?

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Red

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What chamber of the heart receives blood from the lungs?

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Left atrium

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What vessels carry blood away from the heart?

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Arteries

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What blood cells help fight infection within the body?

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White blood cells

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What expansion of arteries during a heart beat that can be measured at the wrists or neck?

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Pulse

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What is the liquid portion of the blood?

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Plasma

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What vena cava carries blood from the upper portion of the body back to the heart?

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Superior vena cava

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What vena cava Carrie blood from the lower portion of the body back to the heart?

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Inferior vena cava

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What does blood come out of in higher pressure?

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Arteries

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What does blood come ino the heart in lower pressure?

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Veins

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