Topic 1 Flashcards
What do red blood cells look like and do
Carry’s oxygen around body and is a biconcave
What does white blood cells look like and do
Protects body from infection and is bugger than red blood cell with nucleus in middle
What does platelets look like and do
Creates scabs/clots and are cell fragments
What is the liquid portion of the blood
Plasma
What do antibodies do
Fight disease
Do red blood cells contain haemoglobin
Yes
What vessel has valves
Vein
Describe capillaries
Single layer of cells in walls
Describe artery
Thick muscle layer
Where does the sistemic circulation take blood
Around the rest of the body’s organs
Where does the pulmonary circulation takes blood to
To and from lungs
What artery / vein goes to and fromheart
Coronary
What artery/vein goes to and from liver
Hepatic
What artery/vein takes blood to legs and lower body
Iliac
What vein takes blood from the brain and artery to the brain
Carotid artery and jugular vein
What takes blood to and from the kidney
Renal artery / vein
What takes blood to and from stomach
Gastric artery and hepatic portal vein
Small intestine blood travels from
Mesentric artery and hepatic portal vein
What is at the top of heart ventricle or atrium
Atrium
What’s at bottom of heart atrium or ventricle
Ventricle
Vena cava takes blood up to the
Heart
Aorta takes blood to
Rest of body
Plasma uses and descriptions
Yellow liquid and carries minerals
Pulmonary artery carries oxygenated or deoxygenated
De oxygenated
