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The average adult human heart is the size of

The average normal heart rate is

What % of plasma is water/serum

Things contained is plasma

HCG is

The human heart has how many chambers?

The heart is covered by a sack called the

The heart is made up of what type of muscle?

Which chamber of the heart is the strongest?

What is pulmonary circulation?

This transports deoxygenated blood from the upper extremities to the heart

This transports deoxygenated blood from the lower extremities to the heart

The right upper chamber of the heart that receives blood from the venae cavae

The valve located in the heart between the right atrium and right ventricle

The heart strings located on the AV valves

The chamber on the right side of the heart that receives blood from the right atrium and pumps it into the pulmonary arteries

The valve between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery

This transfers blood away from the heart to the lungs

These transfer oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart

The left upper chamber of the heart that receives blood from the pulmonary veins

Valve located between the left atrium and left ventricle

The bicuspid valve is also known as

The chamber on the left side of the heart that receives blood from the left atrium and pumps it into the aorta

The left ventricle pumps blood through this valve into the aorta

The blood leaves the heart and travels to the rest of the body by way of the

Circulation of blood to the heart is called

The coronary arteries are located

The coronary arteries branch out into

The electrical system of the heart is

A small mass of electrical tissue stimulating the heart to beat or contract

This is also called the pace maker of the heart

What is the function of the AV node or Atrio-Ventricular node

This is a nerve network through the inter-atria ventricular septum

These send the electrical impulses to the ventricles

Atrio fidrulation or Afib is associated with

Ventricular firulation or Vfib is associated with

The lubb sound is created by

The AV valves are the

The closing of the semilunar valve creates what sound

A heart sound when there should not be one

Treatment for an active murmur may include

An inactive murmur would require

An EKG or ECG is

The P wave is the

The ventricular contraction pressure is indicated on an EKG by the

The T wave is the

The term for when the chambers of the heart get larger & the muscle walls get thinner making the heart weaker

Hypertrophy of the heart is caused by

Systolic number is the

Diastolic number is the

List types of resistance

The average BP is

Blood pressure is measured with

Internal resistance is caused by increased

Increased RBCs

Decreased RBCs

Increased WBCs

Decreased WBCs

Increased platelets

Decreased platelets

A stationary blood clot

A moving blood clot

Frictional resistance is caused by

The build up of plaque on blood vessel walls is called

As resistance increases so does

Hardening of the arteries is called

Peripheral resistance is caused by

A bulge in a blood vessel wall is called

List the three types of blood vessels

Characteristics of arteries

The largest artery is

The arterial system is a ____ ______ system

The aorta is ______ in diameter

3 Characteristics of veins

The smallest of all blood vessels

The diameter of a capillary is

This is at the point where an artery & capillary meet

RBCs or red blood cells

Where are O₂, CO₂, waste, & nutrients exchanged

The life span of a RBC is

Average hemoglobin is

Hematocrit is

Average hematocrit is

What are the four basic blood types

What percent of the population has A type blood

What percent of the population has B type blood

What percent of the population has AB type blood

What percent of the population has O type blood

What stemulates antibody production

What type of blood is known as the universal doner

The universal recipient has what blood type

What type of antibody does A type blood have

What type of antibody does B type blood have

What type of antibody does AB type blood have

What type of antibody does O type blood have

A lack of or insufficient amount of blood or hemoglobin is

List four types of anemia

What type of anemia is due to bone marrow malfunction?

What type of anemia is due to a chronic blood loss

What type of anemia is due to lack of iron in the diet? More common in mensruating females

What type of anemia is due to destruction of erythrocytes (i.e. Sickle-cell anemia)

A congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks & costal areas.

A blood disease characterized by the abnormal presence of erythroblasts in the blood

A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people

% of people who are RH+ & RH-

A macrophage is a

A lung macrophage is a

A Kupffer cell is

A fixed or stationary basophil is a

Lymphocytes

The life span of a leucocyte is

Monocytes

How many WBCs are there in the human body

PMN cell

These make up 2-6% of circulating WBCs are associated with allergic reactions & are phagocytic particularly to parasites

These make up 0-1% of circulating WBCs, release heparin and histamine & act as an anticoagulant

List the 5 classes of antibody molecules

The first made antibody (at 6mo-1yr) & the most abundant

The only antibody that can cross the placenta

The secretory antibody, found in lacrimal fluid, sweat...

The least of the antibodies found in circulation. If high=bone marrow cancer

The antibody associated with reagin allergies/allergic reactions

A platelet is also called a

The function of thrombocytes is

There are on average how many platelets are ther /mm³?

Clotting time is about

A sex-linked genetic defect associated with the gene for clotting

The liquid portion of the blood