Unit 5 Vocabulary list 1

This word has to do with the heart and blood vessels; It is also the name of the body system that includes the heart and blood vessels.

• Pulmonary

• Cardiovascular

• Arteries

• Capillaries

Two upper chambers of the heart

• arterioles

• Atria

• ventricles

• systemic

The small blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart are called:

• Arteries

• Ventricles

• Atria

• Arterioles

Small blood vesssels that connect capillaries to veins.

• Venules

• capillaries

• arteries

• hemaglobin

Large blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart

• Ventriclies

• Arteries

• venules

• plaque

Something that is related to or affects the lungs

• pulmonary

• systemic

• hemoglobin

• atria

Small blood vessels that connect arteries to venules, which connect veins are called;

• artia

• capillaries

• venules

• arteries

Something that refers to oxegyn being removed

• altherosclerosis

• deoxygenated

• hemoglobin

• systemic

A condition when deposits of plaque build up in the arteries

• cardiovascular

• Altherosclerosis

• Arteriosclerosis

• plaque

A substance in red blood cells that helps carry oxygen throughout the body

• Hemoglobin

• Capillaries

• Arteries

• Artia