Cardio Vascular System

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  1. 2. Any of the membranous tubes that form a branching system and carry blood to the heart from the cells, tissues, and organs of the body.
  2. 4. Irrational fear of blood.
  3. 8. Red blood cells that carry __________(the molecule that transports oxygen) and help remove wastes from tissues throughout the body.
  4. 9. A cell, especially a white blood cell, having granules that stain readily with basic dyes.
  5. 10. The primary type of white blood cell involved in inflammation.
  6. 11. The three-segmented valve of the heart that keeps blood in the right ventricle from flowing back into the right atrium.
  7. 14. An elastic tubular channel, such as an artery, a vein, or a capillary, through which the blood circulates.
  8. 15. Conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
  9. 16. The semilunar valve between the left ventricle and the aorta, controlling the flow of blood.
  10. 17. Another name for "mitral valve".
  11. 19. The chamber on the left side of the heart that receives arterial blood from the left atrium and pumps it into the aorta.
  12. 20. Blood ________:The course of the blood from the heart through the arteries, capillaries, and veins back again to the heart.ophage
  13. 23. Any of the muscular elastic tubes that form a branching system and that carry blood away from the heart to the cells, tissues, and organs of the body.
  14. 24. White blood cell is also called, ___________.
  15. 25. The inner open space or cavity of a tubular organ, as of a blood vessel or an intestine.
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  1. 1. Either of two large veins that return deoxygented blood to the right atrium of the heart.
  2. 3. The fluid that circulates through the heart, arteries, capillaries, and veins and is the chief means of transport within the body.
  3. 5. A type of white blood cell containing granules that can be stained by eosin.
  4. 6. These blood vessels form an intricate network throughout the body for the interchange of various substances, such as oxygen and carbon dioxide, between blood and tissue cells.
  5. 7. The chamber on the right side of the heart that receives venous blood from the right atrium and pumps it into the pulmonary trunk.
  6. 12. Prevents blood from flowing from the artery back into the heart.
  7. 13. The main vessel in the arterial network, which conveys oxygen-rich blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs.
  8. 18. The right upper chamber of the heart that receives blood from the vena cava and coronary sinus.
  9. 21. The chambered muscular organ in vertebrates that pumps blood received from the veins into the arteries, thereby maintaining the flow of blood through the entire circulatory system.
  10. 22. An irregularly shaped,disclike,cytoplasmic fragment of a megakaryocyte that is shed in the marrow sinus and subsequently found in the peripheral blood, where it functions in clotting.