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Louis Rodriguez, Period 1, Cardiovascular System - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Prevents blood loss, and infection
    - - Maintaining body temperature, normal pH, and adequate fluid volume
    - - Delivers O2 and nutrients to body cells
      - Transporting hormones from endocrine organs to target organs
- - - - most routinely used, but there are other clinically important pulse points
- - - - systole: period of heart contraction
      - Diastole: period of heart relaxation
- - - - Pericardium; made up of two layers
        
        Parietal layer lines internal surface
        
        Visceral layer on external surface
- - - - Right Atrium
      - Left Atrium
    - - Right Ventricle
      - Left Ventricle
- - - - Muscular Arteries
        
        deliver blood to body organs
      - Arterioles
        
        smallest of all arteries; changing diameters change resistance to blood flow
      - Elastic Arteries
        
        Thick-walled; act as pressure reservoir
  - - - Venous Valves
        
        Prevent backflow of blood
      - Venous Sinuses
        
        flattened veins with extremely thin walls