chapter 4
Cards (88)
- What organ pumps blood around the body?
- What type of tissue is the heart made from?
- What supplies the cardiac muscle tissue with oxygen?
- Which chamber of the heart pumps blood to the lungs?
- Which vessel brings oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart?
- Which chamber of the heart receives oxygenated blood from the lungs?
- Which chamber of the heart pumps blood around the body?
- Which vessel takes deoxygenated blood to the lungs?
- Which vessel brings deoxygenated blood into the heart?
- Which chamber of the heart receives deoxygenated blood from the body?
- Which vessel carries oxygenated blood around the body?
- Where are the cells that control heart rate located?
- How do the cells in the right atrium control heart rate?
- What is the function of the group of cells in the right atrium?
- What can be used to control irregular heartbeats?
- Which type of blood vessel carries blood away from the heart?
- Why do arteries have thick, muscular, and elastic walls?
- What is the lumen size of an artery?
- Why do arteries have elastic walls?
- Which type of blood vessel carries blood to the heart?
- Why do veins have valves?
- What is the lumen size of a vein?
- What is the structure of the walls of veins?
- Which type of blood vessel carries blood to tissues and cells?
- Which type of blood vessel connects arteries and veins?
- What is the thickness of a capillary wall?
- Why are capillary walls one cell thick?
- What is the lumen size of a capillary?
- What type of circulatory system do humans have?
- Why is the human circulatory system described as a double circulatory system?
- What happens to blood in the lungs?
- What is blood?
- How many main components is blood made up of?
- What is the function of red blood cells?
- What is the function of plasma?
- What is the function of platelets?
- What is the purpose of blood clots?
- What is the function of white blood cells?
- What causes Coronary heart disease?
- What does the build up of fatty material do to the coronary arteries?