| A | B |
|---|
| Increases blood pressure | activity, exercise |
| decreased blood pressure | resting, sitting |
| white blood cells | fight infection, increase when fighting infection |
| low blood pressure | sign of shock |
| atheletes' blood pressure | often lower than average |
| diastole | bottom number in blood pressure, when the heart relaxes btwn beats |
| erthrocytes | red blood cells, contain hemoglobin, transport O2 to cells |
| capillaries | where gas and nutrients are exchanged, one cell thick |
| CO2 carbon dioxide | waste gas carried away from cells by the blood |
| sphygmomometer | instrument used to measure blood pressure |
| carotid | pulse in your neck |
| O2 oxygen | transported TO tissue by the blood |
| increases blood pressure | stress, stimulants, physical activity |
| psychogenic | shock caused by physiological response to fear, stress |
| systolic | top number in blood pressure |
| cardiogenic shock | caused by poor functioning of the heart |
| platelets | form blood clots |
| metabolic shock | caused by severe loss of body fluid |
| brachial | pulse in the bend of your arm |
| diastole | measures ventricle RELAXation |
| aortic and mitral valves | oxygenated blood passes through |
| tricuspid, pulmonary, mitral, aortic | order of blood flow through the heart RIGHT to left |
| aorta | large arterial trunk, carries blood AWAY FROM the heart to the body |
| inferior vena cava | largest vein in the body, returns bolood to the right atrium from the lower parts of the body |
| left ventricle | thickest chamber of the heart |
| brachial | pulse used to take blood pressure |
| normal blood pressure | 120/80 |
| popliteal | pulse site behind your KNEE |
| normal pulse | 75 |
| blood pressure measures | presure on blood vessel walls |
