HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY AN INTEGRATED APPROACH EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS COMPLETE REVIEW MATERIAL

HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY AN INTEGRATED
APPROACH EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS COMPLETE
REVIEW MATERIAL

●● Name the substances transported by the body
Answer: 1) nutrients, water and gases that enter the body from the
external environment. 2) materials that move from cell to cell within the
body. 3) wastes that the cells eliminate


●● Do arteries carry blood away from, or to the heart?
Answer: They carry blood away


●● Do veins carry blood to or away from the heart?
Answer: They return blood to the heart


●● What is the septum?
Answer: the wall that divides the two sides of the heart


●● What does the atrium do?
Answer: Receives blood returning to the heart from the blood vessels

, ●● What does the ventricle do?
Answer: pumps blood out of the heart into the blood vessels


●● What does the right side of the heart do?
Answer: pumps deoxygenated blood to the lungs


●● What does the left side of the heart do?
Answer: pumps oxygen-rich blood from to the tissues


●● Define cyanosis
Answer: a bluish discoloration of the skin resulting from poor
circulation or inadequate oxygenation of the blood.


●● Where do the pulmonary arteries receive blood from?
Answer: The right ventricle


●● Where do pulmonary arteries carry blood to?
Answer: They carry blood from the right ventricle to the lungs.


●● Where do the pulmonary veins receive blood from?
Answer: From the lungs.