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13 Cards in this Set
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Valve |
•Prevents backflow of blood |
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Heart |
•Organ that pumps blood around the body •Four chambers •Right: Pumps deoxygenated blood to the lungs- picks up oxygen and loses CO2 •Left: Returns to the heart and pumps blood to the rest of the body |
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Vena Cava |
•Part of the right side • Brings deoxygenated blood to the heart so that the Pulmonary artery can then take it to the lungs • Large vein going into the right atrium |
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Pulmonary artery |
•Part of the right side • Takes the deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle to the lungs • Large blood vessel |
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Aorta |
•Main artery leaving the left ventricle • Part of the left side • Carries oxygenated blood to the body |
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Veins |
•Tubes bringing deoxygenated blood to the heart, to then be taken to the lungs (except pulmonary vein, which brings oxygenated blood to the left side from the lungs) • e.g. Pulmonary vein, Vena Cava |
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Pulmonary vein |
•Brings newly oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart so that the Aorta can carry it around the body |
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Arteries |
•Tubes taking oxygenated blood away from the heart and to the body • e.g. Aorta, Pulmonary artery, |
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Muscular heart wall |
•Thicker on the left side, because it has to pump blood all around the body |
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Ventricles |
•Large chambers at the bottom |
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Atria/ Atrium |
•Small upper chambers |
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Capillary |
•Smallest blood vessel • One cell thick walls |
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Sequence? |
veins--atria--ventricles--arteries Right: Vena Cava--Right atrium--Right ventricle--Pulmonary artery Left:•Pulmonary vein--Left ventricle--Left atrium--Aorta |
