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| Carry blood away from the heart |
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| Are smallest branches of arteries |
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Are smallest blood vessels
Location of exchange between blood and interstital fluid. |
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| Collect blood from the capillaries |
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| Return blood to the heart |
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| Vessel walls have ____ layers. |
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inner most layer of vessel walls
Internal elastic membrane |
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| Middle layer of the vessel walls. Contain |
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| Which layer has an internal elastic membrane? |
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| Which layer contains concentric sheets of smooth muscle in loose connective tissue? |
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| Which layer contains connective tissue sheath and anchors vessel to adjacent tissues in the arteries? |
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| General appearance in sectional view: usually round, with relatively thick wall |
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| General appearance in sectional view: Usually flattened or collapsed, with relatively thin wall. |
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| tunica intima: usually rippled, due to vessel constriction present. |
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| tunica intima:often smooth |
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| tunica media:thick, dominated by smooth muscle cells and elastic fibers. External elastic membrane present |
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| tunica media:thin, dominated by smooth muscle cells and collagen fibers. |
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| tunica externa: collagen and elastic fibers |
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| tunica externa: collagen and elastic fibers and smooth muscle cells |
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| What delivers nutrient-laden blood from capillaries of the spleen, pancreas, digestive viscera to liver sinusoids for processing |
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| Drains part of large intestine |
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| drains spleen, part of stomach, and pancreas |
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| drains part of stomach, small intestine, and part of large intestine |
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| Left and right gastric veins |
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Which of the following is not a major circuit of the body?
a.coronary circuit
b.cerebral circuit
c.pulmonary circuit
d.systemic circuit |
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| How do right and left common carotid arteries differ? |
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| left comes from aortic arch and the right comes from the brachiocephalic. |
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| The cerebral arterial circle (circle of Willis): |
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| provides alternate routes of blood flow in the brain. |
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| The venous blood of the brain drains into a set of _____ before draining into a vein. |
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| The following veins drain into the hepatic portal vein... |
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| Renal, splenic, sup and inf mesenteric, and gastric. All except for hepatic. |
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| Which of the following describes the purpose of the hepatic portal system? |
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All of the above.
It provides the liver with oxygenated blood.
It allows the liver to process and detoxify nutrient-rich blood from most of the abdominal organs.
It drains blood from the liver to the inferior vena cava. |
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| What are the three layers of the blood vessel wall |
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| Tunica Externa, Media, Intima |
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| What plays an important role in the amount of blood flowing to a tissue (tissue perfusion) |
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| smooth muscle cells in the blood vessel walls |
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| What plays an important role in blood pressure? |
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| smooth muscle cells in the blood vessel walls. |
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