BLOOD, TISSUE FLUID AND LYMPH

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What substance is NOT forced out of the arterial end of the capillaries?
Plasma proteins
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What causes the high hydrostatic pressure in the arterial end of the capillaries?
Contractions of the heart
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What is the name of the fluid that circulates in the lymphatic system?
Lymph
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Why can't plasma proteins and red blood cells be forced out of the capillaries?
Too big to fit through the gaps between the capillary cell walls
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What does lymph contain?
Lymphocytes, fatty acids, carbon dioxide, antibodies
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What does tissue fluid contain?
Oxygen, dissolved solutes, few white blood cells
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What is the name of the fluid that surrounds the cells of the body?
Tissue fluid
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At the arterial end of the capillaries, what is the net movement of fluid?
Net loss of fluid
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At the venous end of the capillaries, what is the net movement of fluid?
Net gain of fluid
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What is the name of the process that involves plasma moving out of the capillaries?
Ultrafiltration
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How does lymph travel through the lymphatic system?
Contraction of skeletal muscles through lymph vessels
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Where are lymph nodes found?
Along the lymph vessels
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What is the oncotic pressure?
The tendency of water to move into the blood by osmosis
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The approximate value of the oncotic pressure:
-3.3kPa
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Why is elastic tissue present in the walls of the arteries?
To stretch and recoil in order to maintain high pressure
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What is NOT a feature of a closed circulatory system?
Blood travels through the heart once in a circulation
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Why do multicellular organisms need specialised transport systems?
SA:V ratio gets smaller as the organism gets bigger so diffusion distance increases- diffusion no longer effective
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Why does the blood within the capillaries have a lower water potential than the fluid outside?
The plasma proteins decreases the water potential
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What causes the high hydrostatic pressure in the arterial end of the capillaries?

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Contractions of the heart

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Why can't plasma proteins and red blood cells be forced out of the capillaries?

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What does lymph contain?

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