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Created:: 2022-05-30
Heart
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See also → Types of tissue
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Factors to affect it
- Stress
- Temperature
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Artery :: Sends blood, is elastic and has epithelial and muscular tissue.
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Vein :: Receives blood, thin, stiff and contains valves. Muscles around them also help.
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Capillaries :: Exchanges gas between the blood cells.
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Coronary artery disease
- Partially blocked artery, completely blocked means a heart attack.
- Tissues have no oxygen, so they cannot perform Cellular Respiration.
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Double pump
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Right side of the Heart pumps deoxygenated blood to the left Heart to then pump oxygenated blood.
Function
- Blood pressure
- Routes blood through pulmonary and systemic paths.
- Valves help prevent backflow.
- Changes in contraction rate change blood supply.