Final Lab Review

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What is the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)?

Back

The PNS is made up of all the neurons outside of the brain and spinal cord.

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What are canaliculi?

Back

Tiny, hairlike canals that transport blood, nutrients, and wastes, connecting lacunae to each other and to the Haversian canal.

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What is plasma?

Back

The fluid portion of blood that carries blood cells, glucose, proteins, fats, and wastes throughout the body.

Front

Which structure is NOT part of systemic circulation?

Back

The right atrium.

Front

What are platelets?

Back

Blood cells that help stop bleeding when you get a cut.

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What is the function of the left atrium?

Back

To receive oxygenated blood from the lungs and pump it into the left ventricle.

Front

What is the role of the aorta?

Back

The aorta is the main artery that carries oxygenated blood from the heart to the rest of the body.

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What are red blood cells?

Back

Cells that carry oxygen from the lungs to the body and carbon dioxide from the body back to the lungs.

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What is the function of white blood cells?

Back

To help the body fight infections and diseases.

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What is systemic circulation?

Back

The part of the cardiovascular system that carries oxygenated blood away from the heart to the body and returns deoxygenated blood back to the heart.