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Function: transport system that carries blood and substances to and from tissues; antibodies and other proteins protect the body
Organs: heart, blood vessels, blood |
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Function: picks up leaked fluid from blood vessels and returns it; cleanses blood of disease and pathogens
Organs: lymph vessels and nodes, spleen, thymus, tonsils |
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Function: keeps blood continuously supplied with oxygen and removes CO2; contributes to acid-base balance of blood
Organs: nasal passages, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, and lungs |
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Function: breaks down ingested foods; undigested residue is removed as feces
Organs: oral cavity, esophagus, stomach, small and large intestines |
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Function: provides egg/sperm for reproduction; (female) houses development, mammary glands
Organs: testes, prostate gland, scrotum, penis, duct system, ovaries, uterine tubes, uterus, mammary glands, vagine
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Function: protects deeper organs, excretes salts and urea, regulation of body temperature
Organs: epidermal and dermal regions, cutaneous sense organs and glands |
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| transport oxygen and carbon dioxide |
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kill parasitic worms
destroy antigen/antibody complexes |
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| mount immune response by direct cell attack or via antibodies |
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phagocytosis
develops into macrophages in tissues |
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seal small tears in blood vessels
instrumental in clotting |
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| pointed; extends to the left and rests on the diaphragm |
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| inner membrane surrounding heart |
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| out membrane surrounding heart |
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2 superior heart chambers (receive blood)
relatively ineffective as a pump |
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| 2 inferior hear chambers; discharging chambers; force blood out of heart into large arteries that emerge from base of heart |
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| thin serous endothelium that lines the atric and ventricles |
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septum seperating right and left atria
prevents blood from mixing |
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septum seperating left and right ventricles
prevents blood mixing |
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right AV valve
prevents backflow into atria when ventricles contract |
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left AV valve
prevents backflow into atria when ventricle contracts |
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| tiny white collagenic cord which anchor the cusps to the ventricular walls |
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small bundles of cardiac muscle that project from myocardial valve
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| pulmonary semilunar valve |
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prevent arterial blood from entering the hreat
flattens as ventricles discharge
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leads out into aorta
prevents arterial blood from entering heart
flattens and ventricles contract |
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| atrioventricular groove at junction of atria and ventricles |
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| earlike flaps of tissue projecting from atrial chambers |
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empties blood into right atrium by bypassing fetal lungs
receives blood from small cardiac veins
returns blood of coronary circulation to he right atrium |
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allows bloodflow to bypass from right to the left atrium
oval depression in interatrial septum use to be foramen ovale in fetal heart |
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| a bundle of cardiac muscle fibers connecting the interventricular septum to anterior papillary muscles |
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when left ventricle discharges blood into
supplies blood to tissues |
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pulmonary trunk
(arteries) |
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| receives blood from right ventricle and routes blood to the lungs to be oxygenated |
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| deliver oxygen rich blood from the lungs to the left atrium |
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| lower vena cava; brings blood to right atrium that is relatively oxygen poor from the body |
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| superior to heart; brings blood to right atrium that is relatively oxygen poor from the body |
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