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Circulatory System Extended (Blood) Flashcards

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What is cardiac output, and what does it indicate?

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  • amount of blood pumped by the heart (mL/min)

- indicates level of oxygen delivered to the body

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What is a heart rate?

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Number of heartbeats per minute

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What is stroke volume?

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  • Amount of blood forced out with each heartbeat

- how readily the heart fills and empties basically

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How do you calculate cardiac output?

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Heart rate x stroke volume

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What is the average cardiac output?

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  • 4900 mL/min

70bpm) x (70mL/beat

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What do fitter people have in terms of cardiac output?

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  • lower resting heart rates and higher stroke volume to maintain an average cardiac output
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Why does cardiovascular activity help the heart?

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  • regular cardiovascular activity strengthens and enlarged ventricles, making the heart more efficient
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What is maximum heart rate?

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  • highest heart rate attained during all-out physical effort

- decreases with age

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After exercise, what do fitter people have?

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  • they have a shorter recovery time

- meaning shorter time to regain a resting heart rate after physical activity

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What type of tissue is blood? why?

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  • connective tissue because it essentially links all body parts, cells, organs, etc.
  • also a fluid tissue (plasma)
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What is plasma, and what percentage does it make up in the blood?

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  • fluid portion of blood

- 55% of blood volume

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What is the solid portion of blood? What percentage does each type take up in the blood? where are they formed?

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Formed portion is cells and takes up 45% of blood volume

  • 44% RBC
  • 1% white blood cells and platelets
  • solid portion is produced in bone marrow in bones
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What are red blood cells also called, and what shape do they have? How many of them generally?

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  • erythrocytes
    Biconcave disc-shaped
  • most numerous of blood cells
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What are red blood cells specialized for? How much can it carry?

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  • specialized for oxygen transport
  • capacity depends on number of RBCs and amount of haemoglobin (protein) in each RBC
    Note: (The more hemoglobin and blood cells, the more a persons blood can carry oxygen)
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What does hemoglobin contain?

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  • iron

- it’s an iron-containing respiratory pigment

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How do red blood cells transport oxygen?

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  • hemoglobin chemically binds oxygen to transport it (oxyhemoglobin)
  • releases oxygen by diffusion to body
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What else can hemoglobin carry? And why do they have so much room?

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  • can carry some CO2 waste (and H+)

- RBC have no nucleus for more room (for oxygen)

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What happens if a person has too few red blood cells or too little hemoglobin?

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  • results in anemia

- symptoms include paleness, fatigue

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What are white blood cells also called?

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  • leucocytes
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What do white blood cells do?

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  • part of body‘s response to infection
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Generally how many white blood cells in the body? and what structure do they have?

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  • amount of white blood cells can double when body is infected
  • have nuclei and appear colourless
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What are the three types of white blood cells?

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Granulocytes, monocytes. Lymphocytes

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What do granulocytes and monocytes do?

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  • engulf and destroy foreign bodies in the blood (phagocytosis)
  • monocytes can specialize to become macrophages that engulf bacteria by phagocytosis and destroy them
    —> can leave bloodstream when necessary
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How do macrophages move?

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  • move by amoeboid movement (unicellular I believe)
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What do lymphocytes do?
- produce antibodies (marker proteins) | - Allows for pathogen detection and destruction
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What are platelets? what dont they have?
- cell fragments released from bone marrow | - no nuclei
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What do platelets do?
- Play a key role in clotting blood | - prevents excessive blood loss after injury
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How do you platelets work to prevent blood loss?
1. Platelets collect at injury site and rupture, releasing chemicals that combine with other components to produce enzyme thromboplastin 2. A cascade of enzyme-catalyzed reactions leads to production of fibrin, proteins forming a mesh that blocks blood loss 3. A clot is then formed as blood cells are trapped
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What is suspended in plasma?
- blood cells are suspended in this liquid for flow
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What does plasma contain?
- water plus dissolved gases, proteins, sugars, vitamins, minerals, hormones, and wastes
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What does plasma play a role in? And how?
- carbon dioxide transport 1. CO2 dissolves in water, forming carbonic acid in cytoplasm of RBCs 2. H2CO3 diffuses out of RBCs into plasma as bicarbonate ions (HCO3-) 3. CO2 carried to lungs by blood for gas exchange
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What are the two functions of the blood?
Transport and regulation
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How does blood aid in transport generally?
- pathway for distributing materials and energy
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How does blood play a role in the digestive system? Add some absorption too
- blood absorbs nutrients from the small intestine (capillaries of the villi) - absorbs other materials made in body cells, such as glucose, amino acids -
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How does blood aid in the respiratory system?
- transports chemicals and gases to and from respiratory system - For example, oxygen to body cells
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How does blood aid in the excretory system in regards to transportation?
- blood carries wastes from body cells to kidney for filtering and excretion - for example, uric acid, mineral ions
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How does blood aid in the endocrine system in terms of transportation?
- Chemical messengers transported from production sites to target cells through blood
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Why is blood called a connective tissue?
- It connects many cells together and systems together
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What is homeostatic regulation?
- The body attempts to maintain relatively constant interior environmental conditions - Blood plays an important role
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How does blood play a role in homeostatic regulation of temperature?
- blood transports heat - blood taken closer to the skin surface lets off heat - blood retained in the body’s interior conserves heat - Greater heat gradient equals more heat loss
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What is the heat gradient? Own definition
Difference in temperature between skin and external environment
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What is vasodilation and what happens in it?
- expansion of blood vessel diameter | - exterior blood vessels dilate to let in more blood in order to let heat dissipate (disappear)
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What is vasoconstriction and how does it occur?
- decrease in blood vessel diameter | - Exterior blood vessels constrict to keep blood and warmth in the body’s core
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What does Vaso refer to?
Blood vessels
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How does vasodilation and vasoconstriction affect blood pressure?
- vasodilation lowers blood pressure | - vasoconstriction increases bp
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Does exercise prompt vasodilation or basal constriction and why?
- vasodilation in order to increase blood supply to tissues that need it (and let off excessive heat)
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What substances promote vasodilation?
- alcohol and nicotine when the body does not necessarily need it Ex. Drunk people will get colder on a winter night
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What does the countercurrent heat exchange system do?
- maintain steady body temperature | Conserve or give off (cool down) heat when necessary
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How does the countercurrent heat exchange system work?
- warm blood from the core exchanges heat with cooler blood returning to core to conserve heat and maintain temperature of core - blood can travel through a surface vein to expel excessive heat (has an option)
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How do you capillaries/capillary beds play a role in circulation?
- capillary beds fill the body between artery and vein branches - blood passes through capillaries when the blood is needed - Otherwise, it can pass through an arteriovenous shunt to bypass the capillaries
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What do precapillary sphincters do?
Control blood flow into capillaries
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What blood pressure do capillaries have?
BP is in between that of arteries (highest) and veins (lowest) - blood pressure decreases from arteries to capillaries to veins to ensure blood flow
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Why is blood flow the slowest in capillaries?
To allow for diffusion to occur
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What is interstitial fluid?
- fluid that surrounds all body cells | - also known as extracellular or tissue fluid
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What does interstitial fluid do?
- nutrients and wastes must pass between blood and cells through this fluid - nutrients and oxygen diffuse down concentration gradient from blood to institutional fluid to cells - Wastes flow down concentration gradient from cells to interstitial fluid and blood

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