the heart

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what hormone increases your heart rate, enabling muscles to release more energy?
adrenaline
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what part of the brain changes our heart rate for sleeping?
medulla
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what factors create coronary heart disease?
hereditary
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what factors create coronary heart disease?
high blood pressure
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what factors create coronary heart disease?
diet
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what factors create coronary heart disease?
smoking
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what factors create coronary heart disease?
stress
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what factors create coronary heart disease?
lack of exercise
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which ventricle pumps blood to the lungs?
right
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which ventricle pimps blood to the rest of the body?
left
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what do red blood cells contain?
haemoglobin
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where are red blood cells made?
bone marrow
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when haemoglobin combines with oxygen it becomes what?
oxyhemoglobin
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what do red blood cells NOT contain?
nucleus
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what type of blood cells protect the body from disease?
white
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what is the word for when white blood cells ingest bacteria?
phagocytosis
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what are the cells called when white blood ingest bacteria?
phagocytes
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around 25% of white blood cells are…
lymphocytes
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lymphocytes function is to make…
antibodies
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what are not while cells, but fragments of large cells made in the bone marrow?
platelets
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