A | B |
Pulmonary artery | Takes blood from heart to lungs |
Pulmonary vein | Takes blood from lungs to heart |
Valves | Found in veins and the heart |
Left ventricle | Pumps blood to the body |
Aorta | Artery leaving the left ventricle |
Right atrium | Gets blood from the vena cava |
Vena cava | Takes blood from body to heart |
Capillaries | Carry blood from arteries to veins |
One cell | Thickness of capillary wall |
Elastic fibres | Lots found in artery wall |
Oxygen | Gas diffusing into cells from capillaries |
Carbon dioxide | Gas diffusing into capillaries from cells |
Glucose | Food molecule diffusing into cells from capillaries |
Small intestine | Where the blood absorbs glucose |
Coronary artery | Takes oxygen to the heart muscle |
Muscle | What the heart is made of |
Tendons | Stop heart valves turning inside out |
William Harvey | Worked out that capillaries must exist |
Arteries | Vessels with thick elastic, muscular walls |
Veins | Low pressure vessels returning blood to heart |