The heart(B.15)

• which type of vessel leaves the heart?

  Arteries
• Which type of vessel enters the heart?


  Veins
• Name of the 4 chambers of the heart?

  Top: left/right Atrium Bottom: left/right ventricle
• Where is the body's natural pacemaker (cells that control the bodies resting heart rate)?

  Right atrium
• Name of the blood vessel that enters the heart from the body?


  Vena Cava
• Name of the blood vessel that enters the heart from the lungs?


  Pulmonary vein
• Name of the blood vessel that goes to the lugs from the heart?


  Pulmonary artery
• Name of the blood vessel that goes from the heart to the rest of your body?

  Aorta
• Which side of the heart is thicker?


  left
• Which side of the heart pumps oxygenated blood out of it and which side pumps deoxygenated?

  Oxygenated = left Deoxygenated = Right
• Name for removing a heart from one person and placing it into another person?

  Transplant
• Name of the drug that reduces that amount of cholesterol in a person's body?


  Statins
• Which organ does a statin effect?

  Liver
• 3 Adaptations of red blood cells

  no nucleus, biconcave shape, small
• 2 adaptations of a white blood cell

  Cytoplasm contains enzymes, flexible cell membrane