• What happens once the air

becomes processed by the

respiratory system?
• Alone, can respiratory organs
supply the every cell in our body
with oxygen?
THE CIRCULATORY
SYSTEM
• Canyou imagine what can
happen when the heart rests?
MAJOR DIVISIONS
OF THE HEART
DETAILED PARTS OF THE
HEART
• It has four chambers with specific tasks to do: two
ventricles and two atria.
• The atria are the receiving chambers of the heart,
accepting blood from the body (right atrium) and
from the lungs (left atrium).
• The ventricles are the pumping chambers, moving
blood to the lungs (right ventricle) and into the
body (left ventricle).
 VALVES
• Between each atrium and ventricle to
prevent the blood from flowing backwards
• like one way doors that keep the blood
moving in one direction only
• control the movement of the blood
 BLOOD

• mainly composed of plasma, the yellowish

liquid composed of 90% water that carries
nutrients, hormones, and other important
substances and different blood cells
 RED BLOOD CELLS (RBC)

• Also known as erythrocytes, carry oxygen to the body cells

• are most abundant of the blood cells (around 5,000000 red blood
cells in one drop of blood) and its life span is 120 days
• contain hemoglobin
- contains Fe, iron making it excellent transporter of oxygen
and carbon dioxide
• the long bones of your body, the spleen, and the liver continually
produce new red blood cells to replace the worn-out cells
 WHITE BLOOD CELLS (WBC)

• Also known as leukocytes, battle infection and attack

and destroy germs or foreign proteins that enter the
body
• there are about 7000 WBCs per milliliter of blood (mL)
and its number is can be indication of a disease
Neutrophil- combats bacterial and fungal infection

Eosinophil- defends against parasitic infection

Basophil- functions during allergic and antigen (foreign

protein) reaction
Lymphocytes- B-cells make antibodies to fight the
foreign protein and T cells function in immune response

Monocytes- remove dead cells debris and clean up the

“crime scene” where the body’s soldiers battle an
infection
 PLATELETS
• Also known as thrombocytes, help the blood clot,
thereby preventing bleeding when an artery or vein is
severed or broken.
• the clot is dissolved by an enzyme called plasmin
• a normal platelet count of a healthy individual is from
150,000 to 450,000 per milliliter of blood
• the lifespan is from five to nine days only
• Disorders like: dengue, aplastic anemia, chemotherapy
 PLASMA
• is a pale yellow fluid where the blood cells are suspended
• makes up more than half of the total blood volume, roughly 55%
• consists mainly of water and also contain dissolved constituents
including proteins (albumin, fibrinogen, and globulins), glucose,
clotting factors, electrolytes and hormones
• also contain CO2
• plays a very important role in osmosis, thereby promoting the
balance of electrolytes
• Blood serum- blood plasma without the blood cells and the
clotting factors
 THE BEAT
• the pumping of the heart is made possibly by series of
alternating contraction and relaxation of the heart muscle
• when blood pressure is being taken, two measurements are
being recorded:
a. the systole/systolic pressure- pertains to contraction of the
heart muscle
b. diastole/diastolic pressure- pertains to the relaxation of
the heart muscle
 SPHYGMOMANOMETER

• device that measures blood pressure