Untitled Flashcards Set

• Question: What externally covers an atrium?
  Answer: Auricle

• Question: What is the correct formula for calculating cardiac output?
  Answer: Cardiac Output = Stroke Volume × Heart Rate

• Question: Blood passes from the legs into the - vena cava and then into the -
  Answer: Inferior vena cava; right atrium

• Question: The human cardiovascular system has two loops. Which loop takes blood from the heart to the body tissues and back?
  Answer: Systemic loop

• Question: The pericardium around the heart is responsible for?
  Answer: Reducing friction around the heart

• Question: A person with type A blood needs a transfusion. What blood type is safe to give them?
  Answer: Type A or Type O

• Question: The hormone that stimulates platelet formation is?
  Answer: Thrombopoietin

• Question: A single hemoglobin molecule can carry - oxygen molecules, and each red blood cell carries - hemoglobin proteins.
  Answer: 4 oxygen molecules; millions of hemoglobin proteins

• Question: Blood plasma is made of?
  Answer: Water, proteins, hormones, gases, salts, minerals, nutrients, enzymes, waste

• Question: An erythrocyte is more commonly known as?
  Answer: Red blood cellName 3 formed elements found in whole blood.
  Answer: Erythrocytes, leukocytes, thrombocytes

• Which formed element is used to determine a hematocrit?
  Answer: Erythrocyte

• Which layer is the buffy coat?
  Answer: Layer 2

• Blood plasma is primarily made of water. What else is found in it?
  Answer: Proteins, hormones, gases, salts, minerals, nutrients, enzymes, waste

• Name 3 ways in which the structure of red blood cells illustrates their function in the body.
  Answer:

  1. Biconcave shape increases surface area

  2. Round sides enable efficient flow

  3. Lack of nucleus prevents oxygen consumption

• Why can’t oxygen travel through the blood on its own?
  Answer: Oxygen is nonpolar

• How many oxygen molecules can one hemoglobin protein carry?
  Answer: Four

• In the center of each heme group can be found an atom of which element?
  Answer: Iron

• What is the function of the cells known as leukocytes?
  Answer: Protect the body from foreign invaders

• Name 4 ways erythrocytes differ from leukocytes.
  Answer:

• Erythrocytes lack nuclei; leukocytes have nuclei

• Erythrocytes have a fixed lifespan; leukocytes vary

• Erythrocyte concentration is constant; leukocytes fluctuate

• Erythrocytes stay in blood vessels; leukocytes can move out

11. What is diapedesis? What type of blood cells use this process?
    Answer: Movement of leukocytes out of blood vessels

12. Name 2 differences between granulocytes and agranulocytes.
    Answer:

• Granulocytes have lobe-shaped nuclei and visible granules

• Agranulocytes have spherical/kidney-shaped nuclei and no granules

13. Name the 5 types of leukocytes from highest to lowest concentration.
    Answer: Neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils, basophils

14. Blood cells are formed by what process? Where does this occur?
    Answer: Hematopoiesis; occurs in red bone marrow

15. The stem cell that differentiates into all others is known as a __________.
    Answer: Hemocytoblast

16. Immature erythrocytes have huge numbers of ribosomes. What protein are these ribosomes manufacturing?
    Answer: Hemoglobin

17. Describe what happens when oxygen levels drop in the blood.
    Answer: Kidneys/liver release erythropoietin, stimulating red bone marrow

18. What does a sphygmomanometer measure?
    Answer: Blood pressure

19. Name one of the arteries that can be used to take your pulse and its location.
    Answer: Carotid – neck; Brachial – elbow; Radial – wrist

20. An individual has type A blood. You would expect to find A __________ on the erythrocytes and anti-B _____________ in the blood plasma.
    Answer: Antigens; antibodies

21. What is hypertension? Explain why this can adversely affect an individual’s health.
    Answer: High blood pressure; increases resistance, making heart work harder

22. Which blood type is known as the universal donor?
    Answer: O

23. Which blood type is known as the universal recipient?
    Answer: AB

24. Two parents (heterozygous blood type A and blood type O) have children. What blood types are possible for the children?
    Answer: A or O

25. Which 2 heart chambers contain deoxygenated blood?
    Answer: Right atrium, right ventricle

26. Which 2 heart chambers contain oxygenated blood?
    Answer: Left atrium, left ventricle

27. Briefly explain the 3 steps of hemostasis.
    Answer:

28. Vessel contraction

29. Platelet activation

30. Fibrin mesh formation

31. What is the difference between an embolus and a thrombus?
    Answer: Thrombus – stationary clot; Embolus – moving clot

32. A blood type characterized by erythrocytes that have no A or B antigens on them is:
    Answer: Type O

33. An Rh- mother just gave birth to an Rh+ infant. Explain to her the concern for another pregnancy.
    Answer: Mother forms antibodies; Rhogam prevents future complications

34. Name the three layers of the pericardium and their functions.
    Answer:

• Fibrous pericardium – protection/anchoring

• Parietal pericardium – lubrication

• Visceral pericardium – lubrication

32. Name the three layers of heart tissue.
    Answer: Epicardium, myocardium, endocardium

33. What are the 2 cardiovascular circuits and where do they deliver blood?
    Answer:

• Pulmonary – lungs

• Systemic – body tissues

34. Blood just returned through the pulmonary veins. It will enter the _______ (chamber) and then pass through the __________ valve.
    Answer: Left atrium; left AV valve (bicuspid/mitral)

35. Where are auricles found?
    Answer: Outside of the atria

36. Describe the path of an impulse leaving the SA node.
    Answer: SA node → AV node → AV bundle → Bundle branches → Purkinje fibers

37. What are the two major portions of the cardiac cycle?
    Answer: Diastole, systole

38. What is the formula for calculating cardiac output?
    Answer: Cardiac output = heart rate × stroke volume

39. Describe 2 differences between veins and arteries.
    Answer:

• Veins have valves, low pressure; arteries have thicker walls, high pressure

40. Arteries and veins have 3 tissue layers. Name them starting with the outermost layer.
    Answer: Tunica externa, tunica media, tunica intima

41. How can capillaries restrict the flow of blood when it is not needed in a certain tissue?
    Answer: Sphincters restrict blood flow through the shunt

42. What major blood vessel carries oxygenated blood away from the heart?
    Answer: Aorta

43. What are the functions of blood?
    Answer: Transport oxygen, waste, and hormones; regulate temperature, pH, fluid volume; prevent infection, blood loss

44. What gives blood its color?
    Answer: Oxygen

45. Which loop carries blood from the heart to the body?
    Answer: Systemic loop

46. Which blood vessels contain blood at high pressure?
    Answer: Arteries

47. What prevents backflow of blood?
    Answer: Valves

48. What is the contraction phase of the cardiac cycle called?
    Answer: Systole

49. What externally covers an atrium?
    Answer: Auricle

50. What hormone stimulates platelet formation?
    Answer: Thrombopoietin

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Here are the missing 10 questions and answers to make a total of 60:

51. Question: What externally covers an atrium?
    Answer: Auricle

52. Question: What is the correct formula for calculating cardiac output?
    Answer: Cardiac Output = Stroke Volume × Heart Rate

53. Question: Blood passes from the legs into the - vena cava and then into the -
    Answer: Inferior vena cava; right atrium

54. Question: The human cardiovascular system has two loops. Which loop takes blood from the heart to the body tissues and back?
    Answer: Systemic loop

55. Question: The pericardium around the heart is responsible for?
    Answer: Reducing friction around the heart

56. Question: A person with type A blood needs a transfusion. What blood type is safe to give them?
    Answer: Type A or Type O

57. Question: The hormone that stimulates platelet formation is?
    Answer: Thrombopoietin

58. Question: A single hemoglobin molecule can carry - oxygen molecules, and each red blood cell carries - hemoglobin proteins.
    Answer: 4 oxygen molecules; millions of hemoglobin proteins

59. Question: Blood plasma is made of?
    Answer: Water, proteins, hormones, gases, salts, minerals, nutrients, enzymes, waste

60. Question: An erythrocyte is more commonly known as?
    Answer: Red blood cell