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| Solid phase of blood (includes erythocytes, leukocytes, and platelets) |
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| Liquid portion of blood and component of extracellular fluid |
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| Percentage of total blood volume occupied by blood cells. |
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| What formula relates pressure, flow, and resistance? |
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| Thick walled elastic vessel that carries blood away from the heart to arterioles. |
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| Any vessel that returns blood to heart. |
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| What are the two circulations in the body? |
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| Systemic (blood to body) and pulmonary (blood to lungs) |
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| How does the blood flowing through the arteries differ in oxygen content in the two circulations? |
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| Arteries bring oxygenated blood in systemic and deoxygenated blood in pulmonary. |
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| How does the blood flowing through the arteries differ in pressure in the two circulations? |
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| Pressure is significantly higher in systemic than pulmonary. |
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| How does the blood flowing through the arteries differ in volume in the two circulations? |
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| No difference. Volume is the same. |
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| How does the blood flowing through the arteries differ in destination in the two circulations? |
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| Systemic is to the body and pulmonary is to the lungs. |
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| What are the two great vessels bringing blood into the heart? |
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| Superior and inferior vena cava. |
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| What are the two great vessels taking blood away from the heart? |
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| Aorta and pulmonary artery. |
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| What structure exerts the single most important influence on resistance to blood flow? |
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| Trace the flow of blood through the heart |
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| Right atrium-right ventricle-pulmonary trunk-lungs-left atrium-left ventricle-aorta-body-vena cava- back to right atrium |
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