Simplify the Expression

question 42

Multiple Choice

Simplify the expression.

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Definitions:

Veins

Blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart, typically carrying deoxygenated blood from the tissues back to the heart except in the case of pulmonary veins.

Hemostasis

The physiological process by which bleeding ceases, involving blood vessel constriction and clot formation.

Thrombin

An enzyme in blood plasma that causes the clotting of blood by converting fibrinogen to fibrin.

Systole

Contractile phase of the cardiac cycle.