Circulatory System Quiz 260 (20 MCQs)

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1. Vessels with thick muscular and elastic walls
2. Open type of circulation is seen in .....
3. What would happen if a small hole developed in the septum?
4. Blood pressure that is too high.
5. Arteries sub-divide into ..... which further divide into a network of capillaries
6. Blood returns to the heart through the .....
7. What are the walls of an artery like?
8. The vena cava is what type of blood vessel?
9. Electrical signals made by your pacemaker can be read by a special machine called an electrocardiograph, or EKG.
10. Which of the following is the beginning structure of your skeletal system before you are born?
11. ..... is a cancer of the tissue forming WBCs whose number increases manifold at the cost of RBCs.
12. What is a connective tissue?
13. What is the purpose of heart valves?
14. Your brain stem controls involuntary functions, like your heartbeat. What else is an involuntary function?
15. Plasma consists of what percent of water?
16. In the lungs, oxygen is absorbed into the blood. In which part of the lungs does this mainly happen?
17. Shape of leucocytes
18. Which type of blood goes into the left chamber of the heart?
19. RBCs are called
20. In what way is blood the body's liquid messenger?