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Quiz due 4/11/2024 Flashcards

1
Q

What is the first set of organs at the top of your lungs?

A

Trachea

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2
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What is the second set of organs below your Trachea?

A

Bronchi

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3
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What is the third set of organs below your Bronchi?

A

Bronchioles

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4
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What is the fourth set of organs below your Bronchioles?

A

Alveoli

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5
Q

Which gases are exchanged in the lungs?

A

Carbon dioxide and Oxygen

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6
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Which gas moves into the blood at the alveoli?

A

Oxygen

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7
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What chemical does oxygen combine with in the red blood cells?

A

Haemoglobin

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8
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What is formed when oxygen combines with haemoglobin?

A

Oxyhaemoglobin

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9
Q

What are the three types of blood vessel?

A

Veins, arteries and capillaries

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10
Q

Describe the diameter and wall thickness of veins.

A

Large diameter, thin walls

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11
Q

Describe the diameter and wall thickness of arteries

A

Small diameter, thick walls

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12
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Describe the diameter and wall thickness of capillaries

A

Small diameter, thin walls

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13
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What is the function of the veins?

A

To carry blood to the heart

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14
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What is the function of the arteries?

A

To carry blood away from the heart

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15
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What kind of blood is normally carried by veins?

A

Deoxygenated

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16
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What kind of blood is normally carried by arteries?

A

Oxygenated

17
Q

What kind of blood vessel carries blood at the highest pressure?

18
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What kind of blood vessel carries blood at the lowest pressure?

19
Q

Where is the Pulmonary Artery?

A

Top right of the heart

20
Q

What is the function of the Pulmonary Artery?

A

Carried blood from the heart to the lungs

21
Q

What is below the Pulmonary Artery?

22
Q

What is the function of the Vena Cava?

A

To carry blood from the body to the heart

23
Q

What is below the Vena Cava?

A

Right atrium

24
Q

What is below the Right Atrium?

A

Right ventricle

25
Q

Where is the pulmonary vein?

A

Top left of the heart

26
Q

What is the tube across the Pulmonary Artery?

27
Q

What is the function of the Aorta?

A

Carries blood from the heart to the body

28
Q

What is below the Aorta?

A

Pulmonary vein.

29
Q

What is the function of the Pulmonary Vein?

A

Carries blood from the lungs to the heart

30
Q

What is below the Pulmonary Vein?

A

Left atrium

31
Q

What is below the Left atrium?

A

Left ventricle

32
Q

What term is used to describe the heart relaxing and filling?

33
Q

What term is used to describe the the heart contracting and ejecting blood?

34
Q

What structure is between the atria and the ventricles?

35
Q

What is meant by heart rate?

A

The number of times your heart beats per minute

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