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What is the largest artery in the body that allows blood to flow into the aorta but prevents it from flowing back into the left ventricle?

What are abnormal heart rhythms that can range from mild to life-threatening called?

What type of blood vessel carries blood away from the heart?

How many quarts of blood are there in the average adult human body?

Which type of blood vessel allows oxygen and nutrients to pass through to body cells and connects venules and arterioles?

What is the system known as the 'transportation system' that includes everything related to the heart?

What is the resting period in the heart called?

What is the innermost layer of the heart tissue that lines the inside of the heart and allows for smooth blood flow?

What are red blood cells that contain hemoglobin and have a count of 4.5-6 million per cubic milliliter of blood called?

What is the protein molecule in red blood cells that carries both oxygen and carbon dioxide?

Which chamber of the heart receives deoxygenated blood as it returns from body cells?

Which chamber of the heart pumps deoxygenated blood to the lungs?

What are white blood cells that fight infection and have a count of 4,500-11,000 per cubic milliliter of blood called?

Which valve is located between the left atrium and left ventricle and prevents blood from flowing back to the left atrium?

What is the middle tissue layer in the heart that is the thickest and most muscular?

What is the double-layered membrane that surrounds the outermost part of the heart?

What is the liquid part of blood that is 90 percent water mixed with nutrients, gases, and metabolic waste products?

Which valve is located between the right ventricle and pulmonary artery, carrying blood to the lungs?

Which chamber of the heart receives oxygenated blood as it returns from the lungs?

Which chamber of the heart pumps oxygenated blood into the aorta?

What structure divides the right and left chambers of the heart?

What is the term for ventricular contraction in the heart?

What are platelets, important for the clotting process, also known as?

Which valve is located between the right atrium and right ventricle, preventing blood from flowing back to the right atrium?

What are blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart called?

What is the storage area for purified lymph that receives chyle from intestinal lacteals called?

What are specialized lymph vessels that absorb digested fats and transport chyle throughout the body called?

What is the thin, watery fluid composed of intercellular fluid that forms when plasma diffuses into tissue spaces?

What are lymphatic tissues found throughout the body that filter lymph and remove carbon, cancer cells, pathogens, and dead blood cells?

What are small, open-ended lymph vessels that act like drain pipes and join together to form larger vessels called?

Which system works in conjunction with the circulatory system to remove wastes and excess fluids from tissues?

What are vessels located throughout the body in almost all tissues that have blood vessels called?

What is the tube that receives purified lymph from the right side of the neck, head, and right chest and arm area, and empties into the right vein?

What organ, located beneath the left side of the diaphragm, produces lymphocytes, filters blood, stores blood cells, and destroys old blood cells?

What is the duct that receives lymph from the left side of the head, neck, chest, abdomen, left arm, and lower extremities, then drains into the subclavian vein?

What is the mass of lymph tissue located in the center of the upper chest that produces antibodies and manufactures lymphocytes?

What are masses of lymphatic tissue that filter interstitial fluid called?

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