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Lesson 4 Circulatory System 2

The circulatory system consists of three main elements: the heart, blood vessels, and blood. The heart pumps blood through arteries and capillaries to deliver oxygen and nutrients to tissues throughout the body before returning to the heart through veins. Blood contains plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. The pulmonary circulation carries blood between the heart and lungs, while the systemic circulation transports blood from the heart to all body tissues. Common disorders of the circulatory system include anemia, leukemia, hemophilia, heart murmurs, and heart attacks.

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Lesson 4 Circulatory System 2

The circulatory system consists of three main elements: the heart, blood vessels, and blood. The heart pumps blood through arteries and capillaries to deliver oxygen and nutrients to tissues throughout the body before returning to the heart through veins. Blood contains plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. The pulmonary circulation carries blood between the heart and lungs, while the systemic circulation transports blood from the heart to all body tissues. Common disorders of the circulatory system include anemia, leukemia, hemophilia, heart murmurs, and heart attacks.

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• Pulmonary Semilunar Valve

LESSON 3 THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM • Lungs


• Pulmonary Vein
The Closed Circulatory System • Bicuspid Valve
 Humans have a closed circulatory system, typical of all • Left Ventricle
vertebrates, in which blood is confined to vessels and is • Aortic Semilunar Valve
distinct from the interstitial fluid. • Aorta
 The heart pumps blood into large vessels • To the bodies organs & cells
that branch into smaller ones leading into the organs.
 Materials are exchanged by diffusion between the blood and 2. Blood Vessels -A network of tubes
the interstitial fluid bathing the cells. – Arteriesarterioles move away from the heart
• Elastic Fibers
The Cardiovascular System • Circular Smooth Muscle
• Three Major Elements – Heart, Blood Vessels, & Blood – Capillaries – where gas exchange takes place.
1. The Heart- cardiac muscle tissue • One cell thick
– highly interconnected cells • Serves the Respiratory System
– four chambers – VeinsVenules moves towards the heart
• Right atrium • Skeletal Muscles contract to force blood back
• Right ventricle from legs
• Left atrium • One way values
• Left ventricle • When they break - varicose veins form

Pathway of the blood


• Superior Vena Cava
• Right Atrium
• Tricuspid Valve
• Right Ventricle
D. Thrombocytes – Platelets.
3. The Blood – These are cell fragment that are formed in the bone
A. Plasma marrow from magakaryocytes.
Liquid portion of the blood. Contains clotting factors, hormones, – Clot Blood by sticking together – via protein fibers called
antibodies, dissolved gases, nutrients and waste fibrin.

B. Erythrocytes - Red Blood Cells


– Carry hemoglobin and oxygen. Do not have a nucleus Type of Circulation
and live only about 120 days. • Pulmonary Circulation – movement of the blood from the heart
– Can not repair themselves. to the lungs and back to the heart.

• Coronary Circulation - Movement of blood through the tissues


of the heart

• Systemic Circulation - Movement of blood from the heart to


the rest of the body, excluding the lungs

Disorders of the Circulatory System


C. Leukocytes – White Blood cells • Anemia - lack of iron in the blood, low RBC count
– Fight infection and are formed in the bone marrow
Five types – neutrophils, lymphocytes, eosinophils, basophils, and • Leukemia - white blood cells proliferate wildly, causing anemia
monocytes.
• Hemophilia - bleeder’s disease, due to lack of fibrinogen in
thrombocytes

• Heart Murmur - abnormal heart beat, caused by valve


problems

• Heart attack - blood vessels around the heart become blocked


with plaque, also called myocardial infarction

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