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Also known as adrenaline. Secreted by the adrenal gland. Is called a stress hormone and will stimulate body function such as increasing heart rate.
secreted by the parathyroid glands; increases blood calcium levels
A hormone secreted by the pancreas that is essential for the metabolism of carbohydrates and the regulation of glucose levels in the blood.
A ________ is an instrument that measures blood pressure.
Blood pressure is measured in ________ of mercury.
_______ eventually flows from small arteries into tiny capillaries.
Several factors help move blood through veins. First, many veins are located near _____ muscles. The contraction of these skeletal muscles can help push blood along.
Second, the larger _____ in your body contain valves that prevent blood from flowing backward.
After blood moves through capillaries, it enters larger blood vessels called veins, which carry blood back to the ______.
The walls of ____, like those of arteries, have three layers with muscle in the middle layer. These walls are generally thinner than those of arteries.
Third, breathing movements, which exert a squeezing pressure against veins in the chest, also force blood toward the ______.
One way in which materials are exchanged between the blood and body cells is by _______. In diffusion, molecules move from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration.
In the _____, materials are exchanged between the blood and the body's cells.
When blood leaves the heart, it travels through _____. The right ventricle pumps blood into arteries that go to the lungs.
In the lungs, the blood picks up oxygen. Blood then flows to the left _____ of the heart.
After the blood has traveled through the body, oxygen-poor blood comes back to the right _____ of the heart.
Capillary walls are only one cell thick. Materials can pass easily through them. Materials like oxygen and ______ pass from the blood into body cells.
The _____ you feel on the inside of your wrist is caused by the alternating expansion and relaxation of the artery wall.
Every organ receives blood from _______ that branch off the aorta.
Cellular waste products move from cells into the ______