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| large vessel; carries blood away from heart |
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| small vessel; carries blood away from the heart |
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| large vessel; carries blood to the heart |
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| small vessel; carries blood away from the heart. |
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| small vessel; connect arterioles to venules (endothelium only) |
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| lacteal (endothelium only) |
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| osmotic/hydrostatic pressure |
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| acting inside and outside the capillaries |
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| lymph, tissue fluid, glomerular filtrate |
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| liquid portion of the blood minus the large proteins |
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| extreme swelling that occurs when the 4mmhg is not absorbed back into the bloodstream, sometimes due to worms in the glands of yucatan mosquitoes. |
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| swelling as the result of buildup of tissue fluid |
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| Functions of lymphatic system |
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| Absorb excess tissue fluid and prevent edema; lacteals in intestinal villi absorb glycerol and fatty acids; lymph nodes produce lymphocytes that fight infection |
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| Size in sides of the human heart |
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| right side is much thinner because all it has to do is accept blood and pump it to the lungs |
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| tricuspid, pulmonary semilunar, aortic semilunar |
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| lub - sound of tricuspids and bicuspids shutting. dupp - pulmonary and aortic semi-lunar valves shutting. |
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| what a doctor looks for when listening to your heart. |
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| determined by the integrity of the heart muscle. |
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| chordaie tendinae, work with papillary muscles to keep tricuspid and bicuspid valves from swinging up into atrium, prolapse. |
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| sinoatrial/atrioventricular node |
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| de-polarization (contraction) of two atria |
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| 2 atria repolarize and the two ventricles depolarize (contract) |
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| repolarization (relaxation) of ventricles |
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| Electrical currents can't travel across dead tissue, so visable on ECG. |
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| made of liquid portion (plasma) and the cellular portion (blood cells) |
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| 92% H2O, also made of proteins such as fibrinogen, globulins, and albumin, dissolved gases, glucose, salts, wastes (urea), and hormones |
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| cellular portion of blood |
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| made of RBC,thrombocytes, leukocytes |
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