Arteries vasculature system

Question 1

what are blood vessels?

Answer 1

closed system of tubes that carry blood around the body

Question 2

what do arteries do?

Answer 2

carry pumped blood away from the heart

Question 3

what are capillary beds?

Answer 3

branched arteries that pass through tissues and organs to form smaller vessels that branch into capillary beds

Question 4

what goes on in capillary beds?

Answer 4

gas, nutrient, and waste exchange takes place

Question 5

how is blood drained from the capillaries?

Answer 5

via the veins

Question 6

what do veins do?

Answer 6

carry blood to the heart

Question 7

what does the systemic circuit do?

Answer 7

delivers oxygenated blood to most organs and tissues in the body

Question 8

What does the coronary circuit do?

Answer 8

delivers oxygenated blood to the heart

Question 9

what does the pulmonary circuit do?

Answer 9

delivers deoxygenated blood to the lungs

Question 10

What does the systemic arterial circuit begin with?

Answer 10

the aorta

Question 11

what is the largest artery in the body?

Answer 11

aorta

Question 12

where does the aorta originate from?

Answer 12

left ventricles as the ascending aorta

Question 13

What are the three major branches of the aorta?

Answer 13

Brachiocephalic artery, Left common carotid artery, Left subclavian artery

Question 14

where does the brachiocephalic artery travel?

Answer 14

superiorly and to the right

Question 15

where does the brachiocephalic artery split?

Answer 15

near the clavicle

Question 16

What two branches does the brachiocephalic artery split into?

Answer 16

right subclavian artery and right common carotid artery

Question 17

What does the right subclavian artery supply?

Answer 17

upper limb(right)

Question 18

What does the right subclavian artery become?

Answer 18

axillary artery

Question 19

What does the axillary artery become?

Answer 19

brachial artery

Question 20

What does the brachial artery branch into?

Answer 20

radial artery and ulnar artery

Question 21

Where does the right common carotid artery travel?

Answer 21

neck

Question 22

What does the right common carotid artery split into?

Answer 22

internal carotid artery and external carotid artery

Question 23

what does the internal carotid artery supply?

Answer 23

brain

Question 24

what does the external carotid artery supply?

Answer 24

face and scalp

Question 25

what does the left subclavian artery supply?

Answer 25

left upper limb

Question 26

Where does the arterial supply to the brain primarily come from?

Answer 26

internal carotid arteries and basilar artery

Question 27

Where is the basilar artery?

Answer 27

base of the brainstem

Question 28

what is the basilar artery derived from?

Answer 28

fusion of two branches off the subclavian artery called vertebral arteries

Question 29

what are vertebral arteries?

Answer 29

two branches off the subclavian artery

Question 30

what is the circle of willis?

Answer 30

aka cerebral arterial circle; branches of vessels and set of anterior and posterior communicating arteries, they are connected to provide alternate routes of circulation to the brain if one of the supplying arteries becomes blocked

Question 31

What are the major branches of the abdominal aorta?

Answer 31

Celiac trunk, renal arteries, superior mesenteric artery, inferior mesenteric artery

Question 32

what does the celiac trunk branch into?

Answer 32

common hepatic artery, splenic artery, left gastric artery

Question 33

What do the renal arteries supply?

Answer 33

kidneys

Question 34

Where does the superior mesenteric artery travel through?

Answer 34

membranes of the intestines

Question 35

What does the superior mesenteric artery supply?

Answer 35

small intestine and much of larger intestine

Question 36

What does the inferior mesenteric artery supply?

Answer 36

remainder of large intestine

Question 37

How does the abdominal aorta terminate?

Answer 37

by bifurcating into two common iliac arteries

Question 38

what does the iliac artery split into?

Answer 38

internal iliac artery and external iliac artery

Question 39

What does the internal iliac artery supply?

Answer 39

pelvis

Question 40

What does the external iliac artery travel to?

Answer 40

deep into the inguinal ligament to enter the thigh

Question 41

what does the external iliac artery turn into?

Answer 41

femoral artery

Question 42

what does the femoral artery turn into?

Answer 42

popliteal artery

Question 43

What does the popliteal artery branch into?

Answer 43

anterior tibial artery and posterior tibial artery

Question 44

what does the anterior tibial artery turn into?

Answer 44

dorsalis pedis artery