cardio terms

Granular leukocyte containing cytoplasmic granules that are easily stained by eosin or other acid dyes

White blood cells that do not contain granules in the cytoplasm

Simple proteins that can be coagulated by heat and are involved in transportation of steroids and fatty acids and osmotic pressure regulation

Ability of a cell to change form or shape and has the ability to move

Pathological deficiency in the oxygen carrying component of the blood, measured in unit volume concentrations of hemoglobin, red blood cell volume, or red blood cell number

Smallest true artery that connect with the capillary network

Any of a branching system of muscular, elastic blood vessels that blood away from the heart to the cells, tissues, and organs of the body

One of two upper chambers of the heart that receives blood from the veins and forces it into a lower chamber by muscle contraction

Granular leukocyte containing cytoplasmic granules that are easily stained by basic dyes

Fluid consisting of plasma, blood cells, and platelets that is circulated through the vertebrate vascular system, carrying oxygen and nutrients to and waste materials away from all body tissues

Elastic tubular channel (artery, vein, or capillary, through which blood circulates

Any of a group of vessels in which blood flows from cells, tissues and organs of the body back to the heart

System that functions to carry nutrients and waste throughout body

Protein combined with a pigment

Process of changing from a liquid to a gel or solid state by a series of chemical reactions, especially the process that results in the formation of a blood clot

Thin serous membrane, composed of endothelial tissue, that lines the interior of the heart

Organelles composed of interconnected network of tubules, vesicles, and cisternae within cells that synthesize lipids and proteins

Granular leukocyte containing cytoplasmic granules that are easily stained by eosin or other acid dyes

Outermost of the heart tissue that is composed of a single sheet of squamous epithelial cells overlying connective tissue

Red blood cell that is a nonnucleated, yellowish, biconcave disk, containing hemoglobin and functions to transport oxygen

Production of erythrocytes by red bone marrow

Hormone produced by kidney that stimulates RBC formation

Glycoprotein that is essential for the coagulation of blood

Simple proteins that function as transport proteins and as antibodies

White blood cells with granules in the cytoplasm

Chambered muscular organ in vertebrates that pumps blood received from the veins into the arteries, thereby maintaining the flow of blood through the entire circulatory system

Study of blood, blood?forming tissues and blood disorders

Iron?containing protein found in RBC that carries oxygen from the lungs to the tissues of the body and gives these cells their characteristic red color

Process of breaking down of RBS, releasing the hemoglobin

Genetic disorder causing dysfunction of clotting mechanisms

Insufficient levels of oxygen in blood or tissue which may lead to death

Any of various acute or chronic neoplastic diseases of the bone marrow in which unrestrained proliferation of white blood cells occurs

White blood cell ameboid movement, whose chief function is to protect the body against microorganisms causing disease

Leukocyte without granules in cytoplasm that are involved in cell?mediated immunity and antibody production

Protein containing one or more metal ions

Middle and thickest layer of the heart wall, composed of cardiac muscle.

Granular leukocyte having a nucleus containing very fine granules that are stainable with neutral dyes

Granular leukocyte having a nucleus containing very fine granules that are stainable with neutral dyes

Double walled sac enclosing the heart forming the pericardial cavity that contains fluid that bathes the heart

Clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood composed mainly of water, proteins blood in which cells are suspended, clotting factors & some nutrients

Proteins found in blood plasma that serve in transportation, immunity, osmotic pressure regulation and coagulation

Irregular shaped, disc?like cytoplasmic body found in blood plasma that promotes blood clotting and has no definite nucleus, no DNA, and no hemoglobin

Flow of blood from the right ventricle to the lungs, where carbon dioxide is exchanged for oxygen, and back to the left atrium

Clear yellowish fluid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components after it has been allowed to clot

Large organ situated in the upper left part of the abdominal cavity & functions in breakdown of erythrocytes and recycling of RBC components

Flow of oxygenated blood from the left ventricle to body tissues and returning venous (deoxygenated) blood to the right atrium

Irregular shaped, disc?like cytoplasmic body found in blood plasma that promotes blood clotting and has no definite nucleus, no DNA, and no hemoglobin

Tiniest blood vessels consisting of a single layer of endothelial cells which are specialized to allow blood to exchange fluids and gasses in with tissue

One of two lower chambers of the heart that receives blood from a upper chamber and pumps it by muscular contraction into the arteries