Circulatory System Flashcards

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What does the circulatory system consist of

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Cardiovascular and lymphatic system

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What are the functions of the circulatory system

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Delivers gases, nutrients and hormones to the cells and tissues aswell as removing waste products

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What is the cardiovascular system made up of

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Heart, blood, circuit of blood vessels

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Where is the heart located

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In the thorax between the lungs and is protected by ribs

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Atrioventricular valves

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Connect the atria with the ventricles and prevent back flow of blood from the ventricle to the atrium

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Semilunar valves

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Guard the entrance to the pulmonary trunk aorta and prevent backflow of blood into ventricles

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Where does the superior vena cava and inferior vena cava open into

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Right atrium

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Where does pulmonary trunk exit from

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Exits from right ventricle and forms right and left pulmonary arteries
(Going to lungs)

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Where do the pulmonary veins empty into

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Left atrium
Bringing blood rich in oxygen

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Where does the aorta exit from

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Left ventricle
Takes blood around body

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Blood flow through the heart

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  • blood low in oxygen returns to heart in the SVC and ICV and drains into the right atrium
    -passes through tricuspid valve into right ventricle
    -passes through pulmonary valve into pulmonary trunk and pulmonary arteries for delivery to lungs
    -blood rich in oxygen returns from lungs to the heart in the pulmonary veins and drains into left atrium
    -passes through bicuspid valve into left ventricle
    -passe through aortic valve into the aorta for delivery around the body
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What supplies the heart muscle

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Right and left coronary arteries arise from aorta and supplies the heart muscle

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13
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How much blood does the heart muscle receive

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5% of circulating blood

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Why does the heart require a good blood supply

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It contracts approximately 75x per minute

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What is blood involved in

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Respiration, nutrition, elimination of waste, immune defence, water and acid base balance

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Components of blood

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Plasma, formed elements, red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets

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What is plasma and what does it contain

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Clear fluid which contains plasma proteins, enzymes, nutrients, wastes, electrolytes, hormones, gases

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What do red blood cells do (erythrocytes)

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Delivers oxygen from the lungs to the tissues and transports carbon dioxide from the tissues to the lungs

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What are the 3 adaptations of erythrocytes

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Biconcave discs - increased surface area
Lack nuclei- unable to repair- live for approximately 120 days
Lack mitochondria- cannot use the oxygen

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How much haemoglobin do red blood cells have

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280 million molecules of haemoglobin in each red blood cell which binds to oxygen

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White blood cells (leukocytes) function

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Provide defence against invading pathogens

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What are the 5 kinds of white blood cells

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  • neutrophil
  • eosinophil
  • basophil
  • monocyte
  • lymphocyte
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Neutrophil

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Phagocytose bacteria
Increase during bacterial infections

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Eosinophil

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Phagocytose antigen, antibody complexes and allergens
Destroy parasites
Increase during asthma, allergies and parastitic infections

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Basophil

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Secrete histamine and heparin
Increase with chicken pox, sinusitis, diabetes mellitus, myxdema

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Monocyte

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Differentiate into tissue macrophages to phagocytose debris and bacteria. Increase during viral infection and inflammation

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Lymphocyte

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Involved in immune response, may secrete antibodies
Increase during infections and immune responses

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Platelets (thrombocytes)

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  • involved in clotting
    -secrete vasoconstrictions
  • form platelet plugs
    -dissolve old blood clots
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Blood vessels

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-series of vessels that compete a full circuit
Artery > artériole>capillary>capillary>venule>vein

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Arteries

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Subject to high pressure
Thick walls
Thick tunica media
Maintains shape

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Veins

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Low pressure system
Thin walls
Easily distensible
Contains valves

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Capillaries

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  • site of gaseous, nutrient and waste exchange
    -thin walled, endothelial layer and basement membrane
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Types of capillaries

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Continuous, fenestrated (little gaps for larger molecules) and sinusoids (even more gaps)

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Systemic circulation

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  • delivers blood rich in oxygen from left side of the heart to mostly body tissues
  • returns blood in low oxygen to the right side of the heart
  • high pressure system
    -forms an extensive network of
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Pulmonary circulation

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-delivers blood low in oxygen from the right side of the heart to the lungs
-returns blood rich in oxygen to the left side of the heart
- low pressure systen

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Brachiocephalic trunk

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Arm, head and neck

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Right common carotid artery

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Head

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Right subclavin

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Limbs

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Internal carotid

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Brain

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Right vertebral

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Back of brain

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What does the lymphatic system consist of

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Network of lymph vessels
Lymph
Lymphatic tissues
Organs

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Functions of the lymphatic system

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Involved in the bodies defence mechanisms, provides a mechanism for the drainage of interstitial fluid

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Role of the lymphatic system in circulation

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  • Fluid moves from the arterial end of the capillary into the interstitial space.
  • Fluid moves from the interstitial space back into the capillary at the venous end.
  • But approximately 15% is left behind.
  • In the capillary the fluid is termed plasma, in the interstitial space it is called interstitial fluid.
  • The excess fluid enters the lymphatic system and is retuned to the blood through lymphatic capillaries.
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Lymphatic capillaries

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  • Once the fluid is here it is called lymph
  • Blind ended tubes located adjacent to capillary beds.
  • Lymph enters capillary and drains in the the lymph vessel.
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Odema

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When fluid remains in the tissues

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Order of the lymphatic system

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Lymph capillaries
Lymph vessels
Lymph nodes
Lymph trunks
Thoracic duct or right lymphatic duct

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Right lymphatic duct

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Right side of head and thorax and right upper limb
Right venous angle (junction of right internal jugular vein and right subclavain vein)

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Thoracic duct

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Remainer of body
Left venous angle (junction of left internal jugular vein and left subclavain vein)