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Circulatory System Short Answer Review
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What is the largest artery of the body? What is the major vein of the body?
What is the pericardium?
What is myocardium?
What is the septum?
Explain the electric cardiac cycle
Name the 4 valves of the heart. What is their function, structure, and location.
What are chordae tendinae?
Explain how the autonomic nervous system regulates heartbeat. (parasympathetic and sympathetic)
What is blood pressure? What is systolic pressure? What is diastolic pressure?
Explain how blood pressure changes throughout the different blood vessels (i.e. arteries, capillaries & veins).
Explain factors that affect blood pressure.
Differentiate between vasoconstriction and vasodilation.
Differentiate between hypotension and hypertension.
What are the functions of the circulatory system.
Explain the difference between the 5 types of blood vessels.(size, structure, thickness, function, BP, velocity….)
How is blood pressure affected by vasodilation? Vasoconstriction? What do these 2 terms mean?
What is a(n):
a) Arteriosclerosis
b) Atherosclerosis
c) Aneurysm
Name three different places valves are found in the body.
Explain the 3 different vascular pathways in the body (i.e. systemic, coronary & pulmonary).
Explain the process of capillary-tissue fluid exchange
a) What is osmotic pressure?
b) How does it affect the capillaries?
c) How is extra fluid around cells taken up?
Label the following diagram for fluid exchange. Include the pressure in mm Hg on the arteriole and venule sides of
your diagram. What is the pressure in mm Hg in the other blood vessels?
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Name 2 ways blood can bypass the lungs in a fetus.
Explain how the fetal circulatory system changes after birth.
What is plasma?
What are erythrocytes?
Explain the structure and function of leukocytes.
What are platelets? Explain the process of blood clotting.
What is immunity? Explain the function of the immune system.
What is the difference between an antigen and antibody?
What are the functions of the lymphatic system?
What is the structure and function of the lymph veins & capillaries?
What is extracellular fluid (ECF)?
What are lymph nodes? What do they do?
List 4 different lymph organs.
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