Cardiovascular system complete solutions
What is the cardiovascular system? ️It carries needed substances to cells and carries waste products
away from cells. In addition blood contains cells that fights disease
What does the cardiovascular system consist of? ️Heart, blood vessels, and bl...
What is the cardiovascular system? ✔️It carries needed substances to cells and carries waste products
away from cells. In addition blood contains cells that fights disease
What does the cardiovascular system consist of? ✔️Heart, blood vessels, and blood.
What is another name for the cardiovascular system? ✔️The circulatory system.
What important substances does blood carry to other parts of your body? ✔️Blood carries oxygen from
your lungs to your other body cells, and transports the glucose your cells use to produce energy.
How does the cardiovascular system remove waste from cells such as the carbon dioxide from the
production of glucose? ✔️When cells break down glucose they produce CO2 as waste product. the CO2
passes from the cells into the blood, and the cardiovascular system passes it to the lungs where it is
exhaled.
How does the cardiovascular system fight disease? ✔️it transports cells that attack disease fighting
micro-organisms to either prevent you from getting sick or help you get well.
What is the heart? ✔️It is a pump made of muscles that pump blood throughout the body. It is hollow.
How large is the heart and where is it located? ✔️It is located behind the sternum and inside the
ribcage, and is about the size of your fist.
What kind of muscle is the heart made of? ✔️It is made of Cardiac muscle which contracts regularly to
push blood to the blood vessels of the cardiovascular system
Pulminary ✔️Lung
, Cardiac ✔️Heart
Gastric ✔️Stomach
Derm, or dermis ✔️Skin
What is blood? ✔️Liquid that circulates in the blood vessels. It carries oxygen to and carbon dioxide
from the tissues of the body.
What are the three types of blood vessels? ✔️Arteries, veins, and capillaries
Veins ✔️Blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart, thin walled vessels
Superior and Inferior vena cava ✔️Two major veins carrying blood back to the heart; inferior v.c. carries
blood from the lower body (legs & pelvis); superior carries blood from the head, arms, and upper body.
Inferior vena cava ✔️Carries blood from the lower body, legs and pelvis to the heart
Superior vena cava ✔️Carries blood from the head, arms and upper body to the heart
Arteries ✔️Carries blood away from the heart to other parts of the body, thick walled vessels, they
have a pulse.
Aorta ✔️The biggest, fattest artery of the body. It carries oxygen rich blood from the left ventricle of
the heart to the body.
What is the structure of the heart? ✔️Each side of the heart has two chambers, an upper and lower.
The two upper are each called atria and receive blood going into the heart. The two lower chambers are
called ventricles which pump blood out of the heart.
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