Blood Vessels Flashcards
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Arteries carry blood ____ the heart
away from
Arteries usually carry ____ blood
Oxygenated
Veins carry blood _____ the heart
to
Veins usually carry _____ blood
deoxygenated
Largest Arteries near heart
elastic artery
Distal to elastic artery, internal AND external elastic laminae
Muscular artery
Smallest artery
arteriole artery
Continuous Capillary
most common, endothelial cells close
Fenestrated Capillary
wide intercellular pores; Kidney, endocrine glands
Sinusoid capillary
gaps between cells that appear as cavities; exchange large proteins; bone marrow, liver, spleen
Sphincters open
blood flow through capillaries
Sphincters closed
blood flows through metarterioles
Valves are present in _____
limbs
Pulmonary Circulation
Oxygen poor blood leaves right ventricle via pulmonary trunk away from heart to lungs
Pulmonary Trunk
3 lobar arteries on right and 2 on left
Systemic Circulation
oxygenated blood away from heart to body
Aortic Arch
- ) Brachiocephalic Trunk
- ) Left Common Carotid Artery
- ) Left Subclavian Artery
Internal Carotid
brain and eyes
External Carotid
tissues of head
Brachiocephalic Trunk
right common carotid and right subclavian
Subclavian
vertebral arteries, thyrocerial trunk, costocervical trunk
Runs laterally onto 1st rib under clavicle
subclavian artery
Subclavian artery first enters ____ and turns into ____ artery
axilla artery
In the upper arm the axilla artery turns into
brachial artery