Heart Flashcards
(20 cards)
What are neutrophils known as
Hetrophils
Which animals have additional white blood cells Calle azurophic
Snakes
What’s nucleated and oval in shape
RBCs
True or false are their more lymphocytes than neutrophils
True
Which cell do Guinea pigs have which is a circulating mononuclear cell
Foa kurloff
True or false their are more lynophosytes than lynphiles
True
Whys blood clotting important
To prevent excessive blood loss
What the body’s barrack antiogulant called
Hepain
What clotting time
3-5 mins
Wheee does the heart lie
The mediastinum
Where the heart stay
Slightly left of the middle
What’s the sac called
Pericardium
What’s the inner layer called
Endocardium
What’s the middle layer called
Myocardium
What’s the outer layer called
Epicardium
Which side does the blood enter
Right hand side
How does blood become oxygenated
Goes through the lungs
What do arteries do and what is the structure
Transports oxygenated blood
Thick vessel walls to withstand the pressure from the blood and heart
The smooth muscle controls the diameter of the artery
Don’t need valves
Regulates flow of blood
What do veins do and their functions
Transportation of deoxygenated blood
Thinner vessel wall
Collapses on themself during low pressure
Used for blood samples
Valves to prevent back flow
Smaller veins called venues
What’s capillaries function and structure
Smallest of all vessels
Thin walls
Permeable allows thing to pass through like o2
Blood flows slowly
