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20 Cards in this Set
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What 3 things make up the Circulatory System?
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Heart, blood vessels, and blood.
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What continuously circulates blood throughout the entire body?
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Blood Vessels
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What carries blood full of oxygen and nutrients to the rest of the body?
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Arteries
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What takes poor blood and waste back to the heart from the rest of the body?
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Veins
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What connects arteries and veins to the tissue of the body?
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Capillaries
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What is the heart?
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Muscle
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What are the chambers that the heart is divided up into and what does each one do?
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The Atrium receive blood from veins, and Ventricles pump blood into the arteries.
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What are the two different kids of arteries and what do they do?
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Dorsal Arteries go to various parts of the body and the Pulmonary arteries go to the heart and lungs.
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What 4 things make up blood?
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Red Blood Cells, White blood cells, Platelets, and Plasma
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What three smaller systems make up the circulatory system and where do they go?
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Systemic system caries blood to different tissues of the body, Pulmonary carries it to the heart and lungs and the coronary carries it to the heart itself
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Where does the systemic system take blood?
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All the tissues of your body except the heart and lungs
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What do blood vessels do?
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deliver oxygen and nutrient rich blood to the tissues and remove the poor blood from the tissue
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Where does the blood go after the blood vessels have taken it?
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To the kidneys where the waste is filtered out blood
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Where does the blood go after it has gone through the kidneys?
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To the liver where it filters out the sugar so it can store it for later use
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What are the 5 most common ailments of the circulatory system?
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Cardiovascular Disease, Hypertension, Deep Vein Thrombosis, Sickle cell Anemia, and Hemophilia.
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What are 2 types of Cardiovascular Disease and what are they?
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Coronary Artery Disease is the narrowing of the arteries that feed the heart and can cause a heart attack; and a Stroke is when a blood vessel or artery is blocked or when it breaks
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What is hypertension and what are the two ways it can occur?
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when the blood pressure flowing through your blood vessels is very high; Systolic blood pressure is when the blood is pushed out into the body and Diastolic is when its pushed back to the heart
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What is Deep Vain thrombosis and who does it affect?
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It affects people who are immobile for a long time and occurs when a blood clot develops deep inside a vain of a persons leg.
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What is Sickle Cell Anemia and what Causes it?
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It occurs when your hemoglobin is defective and your red blood cells are deformed and cant pass through small blood vessels
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What is Hemophilia and what causes it?
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when your body is lacking blood clotting proteins found in blood and you suffer from prolonged beating because your body cant form a clot
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