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30 Cards in this Set
- Front
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Arteries
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Carry blood away from the heart
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Arterioles
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Baby arteries
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Veins
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Carry blood to heart
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Venules
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Baby veins
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Capillaries
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transition vessels fed by arterioles
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Blood color
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Bright red - high in oxygen (arteries)
Dark red - low in oxygen (veins) |
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Interventricular Septum
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seperates left & right ventricles (lower chambers) of the heart
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Superior Vena Cava
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Blood from head, neck, chest, & upper extremities
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Inferior Vena Cava
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Blood from trunk, organs, & lower extremities
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Bicuspid Valve
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Mitral valva (left AV valve) between left atrium & left ventricle
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Tricuspid Valve
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(right AV valve) between right atrium & right ventricle
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Right Ventricle
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Fed by right coronary artery
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Left Ventricle
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Fed by left coronary artery
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Hemostasis
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Blood stoppage
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Embolus
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Moving / floating clot
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Thrombus
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Stationary clot
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SA Node
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AKA pacemaker, right atrium near entrance to the superior vena cava
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RBC
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Carry oxygen & carbon dioxide, AKA erthrocytes - hemoglobin
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WBC
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Leukocytes, neutrophils, basophils, esinophils, lymphocytes - antibodies monocytes
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Thrombocytes
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AKA platelets - aid in clotting - anticoagulants - ASA, heparin, coumadin
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Universal Donor
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Type O
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Universal Recipiant
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Type AB
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Angina
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Chest pain with exertion
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Aneurysm
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Localized weakening of blood vessel wall
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Artherosclerosis
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Hardening of the arteries due to plaque
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Leukemia
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Bone marrow cancer - elevated immature, ineffective WBC
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Arrythmia
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Abnormal heart rhythm
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Tunica Interna
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Innermost layer of blood vessels
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Tunica Media
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Middle layer of blood vessels
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Tunica Externa
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Outermost layer of blood vessels
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