The blood(B.16)

• Which type of blood vessel hasten walls but a large lumen?

  Vein
• Which type of blood vessel has valves?

  Veins
• Which type of blood vessel has a pulse?

  Artery
• Give one non-surgical intervention that can reduce the changes of heart disease/a heart attack


  Exercise/Diet
• Name of the specialised cell that is designed to carry oxygen?

  Red blood cell
• Name of the specialised cell that is designed to fight pathogens?

  White blood cells
• Name of the specialised cell that helps to clot our blood?

  Platelets
• Name of the liquid part of blood that carries dissolved substances?

  Plasma
• Give one substance that is carried in the plasma of blood

  carbon dioxide/urea/glucose
• Name of the substance that can block arteries?

  Cholesterol
• Name of a disease that occurs when the blood vessels in the muscle of the heart get blocked?

  Coronary heart disease
• What are the blood vessels that provide the heart with oxygen called?


  Coronary arteries
• Name of the piece of wire mesh put inside a blood vessel to keep it open?

  Stent
• State the equation to calculate blood flow rate calculations

  Cardiac output(cm cube/min) = heart rate(beats/min) x stroke volume(cm cube)