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30 Cards in this Set
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Blood
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Type of connective tissue made up of cells/liquid
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Heart
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Multichambered muscular organ
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Blood Vessals
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Where blood flows
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Capillaries
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Close contact between millions of microscopic blood vessals, walls are very thin made of epithelial tissue
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Arteries
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Where blood flows from heart to capillaries, blood flows in one direction
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Veins
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Where blood returns from capillaries to heart
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Lymphatic
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Consists of capillaries and larger vessals
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Lymph
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Collected fluid
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Pulmonary Circuit
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Carries oxygen-depleted blood from heart to the lungs and oxygen rich blood back to heart
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Systematic Circuit
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Carries oxygen rich blood from heart to rest of body and oxygen-depleted blood back to the heart
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Aorta
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Where oxygen rich blood leaves left side of heart, it is the artery that supplies oxygen-rich blood to all of the body
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Pericardium
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Sac that encloses heart
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Artria
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Two upper chambers which receive blood returning to heart
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Ventricles
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Two lower chambers which pump blood out of heart
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Peacemaker
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Region of your heart muscle which sets the rate at which your heart contracts, in ride side of atrium
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AV Code
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Impulses spread to a region of the heart
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Diastole
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Relaxation phase
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Systolic
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Contraction phase
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Red Blood Cells
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Carry oxygen from lungs to tissues of the body
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Hemoglobin
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Protein that temporarily stores oxygen for delivery to cells
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White Blood Cells
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Fight infection and growth of cancer
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Fibrin
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Threads that trap red blood cells and additional platlets
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Plaque
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Patchwork of cholesterol, calcium, and fat deposits on artery
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Cardiovascular Disease
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Illness of heart or blood vessals
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Artherosclerosis
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Narrowing of arteries, results from plaque build up, occurs when deposits harden
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Hypertension
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When anger of fear raises blood pressure
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Stroke
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Blood clot in the brain
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Alveoli
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Grapelike clusters of air sacs in each bronchiole
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Diaphragm
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Sheet muscle
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Emphysema
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When tobacco smoke causes the walls of the alveoli to lose there elasticlicity
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