Circulatory System Vocabulary Flashcards

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Platelets

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Clotting factors that are carried in plasma. They clot to seal a wound and prevent blood loss.

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Blood vessels

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The network of tues through which blood is pumped aroud

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Capillaries

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Where diffusion happens (oxygen, CO2, and glucose diffuse in or out of the blood) most blood vessels are capillaries

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Chambers

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the heart has 4. 2 upper chambers called hte atria, 2 lower chambers called the ventricles

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Heart

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muscular organ that pumps blood throughout the body

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Plasma

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Yellowish liquid portion of blood made 90% of water that contains electrolytes, nutrients, vitamins, hormones, clotting factors and proteins

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Red Blood Cells

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the most abundant cellls produced in the bone marrow, contain a protein called hemoglobin, which carries oxygen to cells

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Valves

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Act to stop the blood from going in the wrong direction.

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Veins

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Thin, elastic blood vessels that bring oxygenated blood to the hear. Have valves

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White Blood Cells

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Destroy infections and bacteria, heal cuts and wounds