arterioles | | used to listen to blood squirting through artery when measuring blood pressure |
plasma | | healthy systolic pressure should be _____ 140. |
under | | this node is in the right atrium and starts the heartbeat, also called the pacemaker |
left | | the smallest vessels in the body, only one cell layer thick |
atrium | | pressure of blood when ventricles CONTRACT |
right | | "O" blood type is the universal ______ because they have no RBC proteins that would clot other blood types |
sinoatrial | | blood disease RBCs rupture (burst) thus causing loss of oxygen to body cells |
subclavian | | arteries carring blood to the head and neck |
vein | | arteries carrying blood to the arms |
carotid | | used in measuring blood pressure to cut off blood supply and measure pressure when blood squirts through reopened artery. |
vena cava | | deoxygenation blood returns to the heart in the right ______. |
artery | | watery fluid that makes up blood |
hemoglobin | | arteries branch into smaller vessels called ________. |
diastole | | ventricle of the heart that pump blood into the aorta |
venules | | name for molecule in RBC that carries oxygen |
ventricle | | normal human RBCs do not have one of these |
four | | pressure of blood when ventricles RELAX |
recipient | | blood disease where WBC have extremely enlarged nuclei. |
femural | | blood returns to the heart through these two veins |
systole | | largest artery in the body, comes out of the heart |
stethescope | | largest chambers of the heart |
donor | | these smaller branches feed into veins |
sickle cell | | return blood to the heart, can stretch many times normal size, and have backflow valves |
capillaries | | number of valves in the heart |
aorta | | arteries carrying blood to the upper legs |
cuff | | "AB" blood type is the universal ________ because they have no plasma proteins that would clot with other blood types. |
proteins | | the ______ ventricle pumps blood to the lungs |
mono | | blood type is determined by _______ on the red blood cells or plasma of a person. |
nucleus | | which has a thicker wall, an artery or a vein? |