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human body
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The heart | Left and right atrium left and right ventcile pulmonary artery aorta pulmonary vein superior vena cava aortic valve valve |
| There are three types of blood vessels | Arteries carries blood from the heart veins always to the heart capillaries 02 and CO2 exchange |
| Blood | Red blood cells white blood cells platelets plasma |
| Cardillo | Heart |
| Myocardium | Heart muscle |
| Hemorrhage | Refers to a significant loss of blood through bleeding |
| Pale skin | hemoglobin is bright red when oxgenated and less red when deoxygenated |
| Vascular | Veins |
| What does the heart do | It's a job is pumping the blood which carries these substances to and from the cell and the body |
| Stroke | Occurs when the blood simply to the brain is cut off or when a blood vessel in the brain bursts and spills blood into an area of the brain causing damage to brain cells |
| high Blood pressure | Hypertension |
| high cholesterol | hypercholesterolemia |
| lymph | blood plasma that escaped from the vessel is absorbed into the tissue. |
| Self and non-self | the key to a healthy immune system is its remarkable ability to distinguish between the body's own cells, recoginzed as "self" and foreign cell, "non" self |
| What is the function of the immune system? | In response to stress messages from the brain, the adrenal glands release hormones into the blood |
| The spleen | The spleen is a flattened organ that the upper left of the abdomen - important in fighting immune system antigens |
| thymus | the thymus is a lymphoid organ that lies behind the breastbone - activates bone marrow cells into plasma cells |
| the tricusipid | separates the right atrium from the right vetricle |
| the mitral valve | separates the left atrium and left ventricle |
| pulmonary valve | separates the right ventricle from the pulmonary artery leading to the lungs |
| the aortic valve | separates the left ventricle from the aorta the body's largest blood vessel |
| arrhythmia | rhythm disorder are problems in the rhythm of the heartbeat |
| coronary artery disease | deposits of fat, calcium, and dead cells, called atherosclerotic plaques form on the inner walls of the coronary arteries and interfere with the smooth flow of blood. |
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