Anatomy - Blood Vessels Vocab

Question 1

Anastomosis

Answer 1

cross-connection between adjacent channels, tubes, fibers, or other parts of a network.

Question 2

Arteriole

Answer 2

small blood vessels that carry blood away from your heart, are connectors between your arteries and capillaries, they control your blood pressure and blood flow throughout your body

Question 3

Artery

Answer 3

Arteries carry blood away from the heart

Question 4

Blood pressure

Answer 4

the pressure of blood pushing against the walls of your arteries

Question 5

Capillary

Answer 5

any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules

Question 6

Hepatic portal system

Answer 6

the system of veins that transports blood from the digestive tract to the liver

Question 7

Peripheral resistance

Answer 7

the resistance in the circulatory system that is used to create blood pressure, the flow of blood and is also a component of cardiac function

Question 8

Pulmonary circuit

Answer 8

Pulmonary circuit

Question 9

Pulse pressure

Answer 9

the difference between the upper and lower numbers of your blood pressure

Question 10

Respiratory pump

Answer 10

a mechanism to pump blood back to the heart using inspiration

Question 11

System circuit

Answer 11

provides the functional blood supply to all body tissue

Question 12

Valve

Answer 12

valve, in anatomy, any of various membranous structures, especially in the heart

Question 13

Vasoconstriction

Answer 13

the narrowing (constriction) of blood vessels by small muscles in their walls

Question 14

Vasodilation

Answer 14

the widening of blood vessels as a result of the relaxation of the blood vessel’s muscular walls.

Question 15

Vein

Answer 15

transports blood to the heart

Question 16

Venule

Answer 16

a very small vein, especially one collecting blood from the capillaries