The Cardiovascular System

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  1. 2. Tissue Blood is a fluid _______ made of living blood cells that float in the nonliving plasma
  2. 4. muscle The heart is composed of _________ tissues
  3. 7. What transfers blood between veins and arteries?
  4. 11. ________ is the pump that moves blood through the blood vessels
  5. 13. The ________ of the blood vessel can cause more resistance within the vessel. When the vessel is shorter there is less resistance
  6. 14. What are the smallest vein components that pull blood out of capillaries?
  7. 15. Beds ___________ are the interweaving groups of capillaries
  8. 16. What is the stickiness and thickness of the blood called that can cause resistance in blood flow
  9. 18. What type of blood vessels carry blood away from the heart?
  10. 19. Cells What are the noncontractile cells that can spontaneously depolarize without neural input?
  11. 20. _________ is when the heart contracts
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  1. 1. What does blood transport around the body in addition to nutrients?
  2. 3. What is the discharging chamber of the heart?
  3. 5. __________ is when the heart relaxes
  4. 6. What system consists of the heart and blood vessels?
  5. 8. What is the receiving chamber of the heart?
  6. 9. _________ carry blood towards the heart
  7. 10. _________ are mini-arteries that branch out of arteries into capillaries
  8. 12. Vessels What forms a closed system of delivery routes that begins and ends at the heart?
  9. 17. As the _________ of the vessel increases, the blood flow through increases