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Key Terms — Human Transport Flashcards

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Lymphocytes

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Large round nucleus
Make antibodies to clump pathogens

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Phagocytes

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WBC w lobbed nuclei to engulf pathogens

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Blood plasma

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Straw coloured liquid in blood
Transport dissolved substances
Mainly water

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Platelets

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Fragments of cells made in bone marrow for blood clot

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Biconcave disc

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Sharpe of RBC
Inc SA
Short diffusion distance

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Vena cava

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Deoxygenated blood from body to heart

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Pulmonary artery

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Deoxygenated blood from heart to lungs

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Pulmonary vein

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Oxygenated blood from lungs to heart

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Aorta

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Oxygenated blood from heart to body

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Bicuspid valve

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Valve preventing blood flowing backwards from left ventricle to left atrium

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Tricuspid valve

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Prevent back flow of blood from right ventricle to right atrium

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Semilunar valves

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Prevent black flow of blood from aorta / pulmonary arteries to ventricles

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Lumen

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Hole of blood vessels

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Artery

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Transports oxygenated blood except pulmonary artery

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Veins

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Carry deoxygenated blood to the heart
Except pulmonary vein
Thin muscle wall, wide lumen, low pressure
Have valves

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Capillaries

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Branched off from arteries
Close contact w cells
Thin, permeable wall
Diffuse substances in and out by conc gradient
Blood plasma —> tissue fluid —> cells

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Pulmonary

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Lung adj

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Hepatic

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Liver adj

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Renal

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Kidney adj

20
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Hepatic portal vein

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Digestive system to liver
To detoxify

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Prothrombin

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Inactive

22
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Thrombin

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Active
Turns fibrinogen to fibrin

23
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Fibrinogen

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Soluble protein

24
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Fibrin

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Insoluble fibre
Trap RBC and platelets to clot blood
Turns into scab

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