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1. HUMAN
CIRCULATORY
SYSTEM
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2. THE CIRCULATORY
SYSTEM
• Humans have a closed circulatory system, typical of
all vertebrates, in which blood is confined to vessels and is
distinct from the interstitial fluid.
• The heart pumps blood into large vessels
that branch into smaller ones leading into the organs, thus
also known as Cardio Vascular System.
• Materials are exchanged by diffusion between the blood
and the interstitial fluid bathing the cells.
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3. THE CARDIOVASCULAR
SYSTEM
3 Major Elements –
Heart
Blood Vessels
Blood
The Heart-
Cardiac muscle tissue with
highly interconnected cells.
Beats in a rhythmic manner,
72 times/min.
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4. HUMAN HEART
• Size
Of a closed fist
• Shape
Blunt cone
• Location
In the centre of the
thoracic cavity between
lungs. Lower tip is resting
on diaphragm slightly
towards left.
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5. CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
THE HEART
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6. INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF
HUMAN HEART
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7. FUNCTIONS OF THE HEART
• Generating blood pressure
• Routing blood
– Heart separates pulmonary and systemic
circulations
• Ensuring one-way blood flow
– Heart valves ensure one-way flow
• Regulating blood supply
– Changes in contraction rate and force match blood
delivery to changing metabolic needs
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8. BLOOD FLOW THROUGH
HEART
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9. CIRCUITS
• Pulmonary circuit
The blood pathway
between the right side of
the heart, to the lungs, and
back to the left side of the
heart.
• Systemic circuit
The pathway between the
left and right sides of the
heart via body organs.
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10. CARDIAC CYCLE
• Right and left halves of the Heart represent two pumps that
work together.
• Repetitive contraction (systole) and relaxation (diastole) of
heart chambers, one after the other.
• Blood moves through circulatory system from areas of
higher to lower pressure.
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11. CONDUCTING SYSTEM OF
HEART
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12. HEART SOUNDS
• First heart sound or “lubb”
– Atrioventricular valves and surrounding fluid vibrations
as valves close at beginning of ventricular systole
• Second heart sound or “dupp”
– Results from closure of aortic and pulmonary semilunar
valves at beginning of ventricular diastole, lasts longer
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13. BLOOD VESSELS
Blood Vessels -A network of tubes
Arteriesarterioles move away from the heart
Valves are absent
Capillaries – where gas exchange takes place.
One cell thick
Serves the Respiratory and other Systems
VeinsVenules moves towards the heart
One way valves
When they break - varicose veins form
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14. BLOOD VESSELS
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15. BLOOD VESSELS
ARTERIES
• Carry blood away from the heart
• Thick and strong, containing muscles and elastic tissue.
• Relatively narrow, it varies with heart beat, as it can stretch and recoil.
CAPILLARIES
• supply all cells with their requirements and take away waste products.
• Very thin, only one cell thick.
• Very narrow, just one cell can pass through.
VEINS
• Return blood to the heart
• Quite thin, containing less muscle and elastic tissue.
• Wide, contains valves
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16. BLOOD VESSELS
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17. BLOOD
Composition of Blood
1. Plasma
2. Formed Elements-
RBC, WBC, Platelets
Plasma
Liquid portion of the blood.
Contains water, salts, proteins,
clotting factors, hormones,
antibodies, dissolved gases,
nutrients and waste
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18. BLOOD
Formed Elements
A. Erythrocytes – RBC
(Red Blood Corpuscles)
Contain 12-16 gms of
hemoglobin to carry
oxygen.
Do not have a nucleus and
live only about 120 days.
5-5.5 million/cubic mm
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19. BLOOD
B. Leucocytes –WBC
(White Blood cells)
Five types – neutrophils,
lymphocytes, eosinophils,
basophils, and monocytes.
Fight infection and are formed in
the bone marrow
Nucleated cells
6000-8000/cubic mm
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20. BLOOD
•C. Thrombocytes – Platelets.
These are cell fragment that are
formed in the bone marrow
from magakaryocytes.
Initiate Clotting of Blood.
1,500,00 - 3,500,00/cubic mm
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21. FUNCTIONS OF BLOOD
• Transport food and waste
• Transport oxygen and carbon di oxide
• Transport hormones
• Storehouse of salts, nutrients, calcium etc.
• Maintain a constant body temperature
• Provide resistance against infections
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22. REGULATION OF THE HEART
Intrinsic regulation: Results from normal functional
characteristics, not on neural or hormonal regulation
Extrinsic regulation: Involves neural and hormonal control,
Cardiac centre is in Medulla Oblongata.
– Parasympathetic stimulation
• Supplied by vagus nerve, decreases heart rate,
acetylcholine secreted
– Sympathetic stimulation
• Supplied by cardiac nerves, increases heart rate and
force of contraction, epinephrine and nor epinephrine
released
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23. REGULATION OF THE HEART
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24. DISORDERS OF THE
CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
• Anaemia - lack of iron in the blood, low RBC count
• Leukemia - white blood cells proliferate wildly, causing anaemia
• Haemophilia - bleeder’s disease, due to lack of clotting factor
• Hypertension – High blood pressure
• Angina – Less oxygen supply to heart muscles
• CAD – Obstructed blood vessels
• Heart Failure – Heart is not pumping blood properly
• Heart attack - blood vessels around the heart become blocked with plaque, also
called myocardial infarction, leads to damage of muscles
• Cardiac Arrest – Heart stops working leading to death
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25. THANK YOU
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