LME Chapter Three Comprehensive Test Prep Questions With Correct Answers.

What are arganulocyte? - correct answer Nongranular white blood cells What is the most abudndant blood plasma protein? - correct answer albumin What is the connection point of different parts of a branching network? - correct answer anastomosis What is the arterial trunk that carries blood from the heart to be disturbuted by branch arteries through the body? - correct answer aorta What are arterioles? - correct answer Smallest component of the arteries What term refers to the two upper chambers of the heart that receive blood? - correct answer Atrria What term refers to white blood cells that are characterized by the presence of blue cytoplasmic granules? - correct answer basophils What is the force exerted by circulation of the blood on the walls of blood vessels? - correct answer blood pressure What is the part of the normal rhythm of the heart during which the heart chambers fill with blood? - correct answer diastole What are ions required by cells to regulate the electric charge and flow of water molecules across the cell membranes? - correct answer electrolytes What are white blood cells characterized by the presence of cytoplasmic granules that become stained by an acid dye? - correct answer Eosinophils What is the inner layer of the pericardium which has direct contact with the heart? - correct answer epicardium What term refers to red or white blood cells or platelets separated rom the fluid part of the blood? - correct answer formed elements What term refers to any condition that affects the performance of the heart or cardiovascular system? - correct answer heart disease What is hyperthermia? - correct answer an elevated temp related to the inability of the body to promote heat loss or reduce heat production What is the region between the lungs also containing the thymus, esophagus, and trachea and the great vessels? - correct answer mediastinum What is a vessel that emerges from an atreiole, passes through the capillary network and empties into a venule? - correct answer metareiole What is peripheral edema? - correct answer Swelling resulting from fluid accumulation in the lower limbs What are platelets? - correct answer Small fragments of cells- colorless irregularly shaped components of teh blood What is the path that deoxygenated blood travels to become oxygenated? - correct answer Pulmonary circulation What term refers to valves of the arteries that prevent backflow from arteries into ventricles? - correct answer semilunar What term describes pale yellow transparent fluids that fill body cavities? - correct answer serous What is blood and lymph circulation from the heart, through the arteries, to tissues and cells and back to the heart by way of the veins? - correct answer systemic circulation What is hypothermia? - correct answer lowering of the body temperature below 95 degrees fahrenheit What is another term for systemic circulation? - correct answer general circulation What does the term systole mean? - correct answer contraction of the heart What term refers to a weakened pocket of lining in the aorta? - correct answer aortic aneurysm What term refers to inflammation of the pericardium? - correct answer pericarditis What are antibodies? - correct answer proteins dispatched by the immune system to neutralize foreign bodies what is not an example of waste product carried in blood? - correct answer albumin what are essential to wound healing and tissue continuity? - correct answer clotting factors what bodily fluid transports required components to where they are needed, while redistributing useless components to where they can be properly excreted? - correct answer clotting factors What bodily fluid transports required components to where they are needed, while redistrubiting useless components to where they can be properly excreted? - correct answer blood