What
causes the red color of blood? (Key-Words:
hemoglobin)
What is hemoglobin? What is
its function?
What are
blood types? Why is it important to know what your blood type is?
(Key-Words:
A, B, AB, O, to transfer blood safely, to mix, the blood cells in
the donated blood, to clump together)
What is
the Rh factor? What blood is called Rh-positive / Rh-negative?
(Key-Words:
substance in red blood cells)
What is
lymph? What is its role? (Key-Words:
clear and liquid part of the blood, to carry everything that the
cells need, to carry away wastes from the cells)
What are
lymph nodes? Where are they found? What are their functions?
(Key-Words:
small structures along the lymph vessels, to form some white blood
cells, to kill off disease organisms)
What sound
is known as heart murmur? Why does it need medical attention? (
Key-Words:
the sound of closing valves, not to close completely, to tell the
doctor that the heart disease is present)
What is
pulse? What is pulse rate? (Key-Words:
heartbeat, a wave of blood, to start out from the heart, to move
through the arteries, the number of times the heart beats each
minute)
What does
the normal pulse rate average about in males and females?
(Key-Words:
80 beats per minute in women, 72 beats per minute in men)
What may lower and increase
the pulse rate?
What is
the origin of the word “capillary”? (Key-Words:
the Latin word “capillus”, “a hair”)
What are precapillary
sphincters? What do they regulate?
What is serum of the blood?
Are all parts of the body
vascular?
