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31 Cards in this Set
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Cardiovascular system
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aka circulatory system made up of heart blood vessels and blood
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eretrocyte
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Red blood cells takes oxygen to all parts of body also helps with bone marrow
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Heart
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is a hollow muscular organ that pumps blood through body. Right side pumps to lungs Left side pumps to rest of body
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Arteries
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blood vessels that carry blood AWAY from heart
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Cappilaries
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tiny vessels where substances are exchanged between blood and body cells
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Veins
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Carries blood BACK TO heart
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Deoxygentated blood
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Blood with little oxygen and much CO2
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Thrombocyte
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platelets that help blood clot
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Oxygentated blood
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blood rich in oxygen
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Right Atrium
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upper chamber RECEIVES blood from body when it IS LOW IN OXYGEN AND HIGH IN CO2
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Left Atrium
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Oxygen rich blood moves from the lungs into the left atrium
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right ventricle
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lower chamber pumps oxygen poor blood out of heart to lungs
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left ventricle
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pumps oxygen rich blood to all parts of body
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pacemaker
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group of cells in right atrium. Sends a signal that makes heart muscle contract regulates the beating of heart
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arteriole
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connects the artery and cappilary
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venule
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connects the vein with the cappilary
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aorta
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largest blood vessel in the body the aorta carries blood from the left ventricle to the body
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septum
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thick muscular wall separates the left side from right side. prevents oxygen rich and oxygen poor blood from mixing in heart
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valve
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flap of tissue that prevents blood from flowing backwards
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difusion
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the process by which molicules move from an area which they are highly concentrated to an area which is less concentrated
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veracose veins
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when a valve in a vein isn't working and blod travels backward causing blood to collect and vein to swell.
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plasma
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the liquid part of blood
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hemolgobin
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Iron containing protein that binds chemically to oxygen molecules puts oxygen in red blood cells
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eucocyte
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white blood cells these are the bodies disease fighters
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fibrent
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a net of tiny fibers that is found in platelets that clot blood
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blood transfusion
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transfuses blood from one person to another
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lymphatic system
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a network of veinlike vessels that returns fluid to the blood streams lymph
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lymph
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fluid inside lymphatic system disolved minerals and glucose
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lymph nodes
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as lymph flows through the lymphatic system it passes through small knobs of tissue
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closed circulatory system
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all blood is incased in a tube somewhere in your body
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systole
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systolic is the plural for systoy
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