Exam 13: The Cardiovascular System: Transport and Supply

Explain the clotting process.

During the final stage of clotting the clot becomes water soluble.

This is a condition usually found in the legs where blood pools in the veins because the veins have become dilated and distorted.

Leukemia is usually due to bone marrow cancer, and creates a higher number of ________ than normal.

Women who smoke and use oral contraceptives are at a higher risk of formation of thrombi in the blood vessels, which can break off to become ________.

If the innermost wall of a vessel is damaged, the ____________ begin the repair by attaching to the damaged site.

The vagus nerve increases heart rate.

The ____________ is the tip of the heart, distal to the head.

Ischemia of the myocardium causes ________.

The pH value measures the levels of ________.

During a severe hemorrhage, blood vessels will ______________ causing an increase in peripheral resistance in an attempt to raise blood pressure.

Basophils are important because they secrete the chemical ________, which helps to keep blood from clotting as it courses through blood vessels.

Signs and symptoms of right-sided heart failure include all of the following except ________.

________ is often called chest pain and is caused by ischemia of the myocardium, as a result of poor blood perfusion of the heart tissue.

The group of pacemaker cells near the entrance of the superior vena cava form the ____________.

Congestive heart failure is now called ________.

Antibodies often react with the antigens that caused them to form, and the antigens stick together, or ________, in little clumps.

Discuss why an O negative mother should be concerned about her second pregnancy.

The ventricles are contracted during the QRS interval of the EKG.

Explain the factors that influence blood pressure.