A&P CV System
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- connective
- blood is classified as a complex connective tissue. type of tissue fibers that ramify throughout the myocardium construct the fibrous skeleton of the heart.
- fibrinogen
- clotting proteins found in plasma, 4% of plasma proteins
- electrocardiogram
- The curve traced by a cardiograph, used in the diagnosis of heart disorders.a graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph
- arteries
- vessels that transport blood away from the heart
- hemostasis
- the stoppage of blood flow; involves thre phases
- kissing disease
- infectious mononucleosis
- myocardium
- the middle layer of the heart wall, composed of cardiac fibrous skeleton of the heart. forms the bulk of the heart.
- plasma
- sticky, straw-colored, liquied portion of the blood comprising 55%
- globin
- 1 globin, molecular makeup of hemoglobin. bind with carbon dioxide.
- heme
- 4 of these make up hemoglobin . molecule
- dup
- normal heart sound due to the closure of the semilunar valves when the ventricles relax
- capillaries
- microscopic vessels that form dense networks that branch throughout nearly all body tissues; have direct access to every cell in the body for exchange of mateirals between blood and interstitial fluid
- apex
- the point of the heart that rests on the diaphragm and its superior margin lies at the level of the second rib.
- arterioles
- SMALLEST of the arterial vessels which feed directly into the capilary beds
- leukocytes
- those blood cells whose primary function is to fight off infections
- tunics
- distinct layers composing a blood vessel wall
- erythrocytes
- those blood cells whose primary function is the transport of oxygen to the cells and carbon dioxide away from the cells
- lub
- normal heart sound due to the closrue of the atrioventricular valves when the ventricles contract
- albumin
- normal osmotic pressure
- thrombocytes
- those blood cells whose primary function is in blood clotting
- superior vena cava
- large vein which carries blood from the upper parts of the body to the right atrium
- systemic
- systems of the body
- thallasemia, sickle-cell
- disease type of anemia, abnormal hemoglobin
- acidophils
- another name for eosinophil, stain with acidic dyes
- pulmonary veins
- veins which carry blood from the right and left lungs to the left atrium of the heart; only veins in the body which carry oxygenated blood
- hematocrit
- counts the % of erythrocytes in whole blood; should average about 45%
- pulmonary arteries
- artery which carries blood from the right ventricle to the lungs; only artery in the body which carries deoxygenated blood
- semilunar
- valves located between the ventricles and the arteries leading away from the heart
- buffy coat
- found at the junction between the two other major parts of the blood; composed of white blood cells and platelets; make up less than 1%
- iron-deficiency, pernicious
- anemia, decreasing hemoglobin content
- 4
- number of chambers in humans
- blood vessels
- the conducting structures, forms a closed delivery system that begins and ends at the heart; stretch for approximately 60000 miles; conduits for blood
- cardiac conduction system
- initiates heartbeat, intrinsic
- atrioventricular
- valves located between the atria and ventricles
- blood
- the flowing medium, indispensable "life fluid" that courses through the body's blood vessels, provides the means by which the body's cells receive essential nutrients an d oxygen and dispose of their metabolic wastes
- formed elements
- the blood cells which comprise 45%, blood cell
- hemorragic, hemolitic, aplastic
- types of anemia, insufficient erythrocytes
- heart
- the pumping structure
- blood pressure
- measure of the systolic and diastolic pressures exerted on the arteries
- septum
- wall which separtates the heart into right and left halves longitudinally
- CONE-SHAPED
- the shape of the heart, muscular organ located within the mediastinum of the thorax
- Type AB
- universal recipient, rarest type
- cancer of blood
- leukemia
- dissolved solutes
- 10% of plasma
- pericardium
- loosely fitting double outer layer consists of the
- 60,000 MILES
- LENGTH OF BLOOD VESSELS