Peripheral Vascular System and Lymphatic System

Question 1

The vascular system is made up of?

Answer 1

The Vessels

Question 2

What are vessels?

Answer 2

vessels are tubes for transporting fluids like blood or lymph.

Question 3

what happens if the vascular system is damaged?

Answer 3

Any disease to the vascular system creates problem with transporting oxygen and nutrient to the tissues as well as elimination of waste product

Question 4

types of arteries?

Answer 4

• Temporal artery (palpable in front of the ear)
• Caroid artery (between the trachea and sternomastiod)
• Arteries in the arms (brachial, ulna and radial)
• Arteries in the legs (femoral, posterior tibial, popliteal artery)

Question 5

types of veins

Answer 5

• jugular vein
• veins in the arm
  veins in the leg (femoral and popliteal, great and small vein, perforators)

Question 6

differenve betwen veins and arteries

Answer 6

• vein (deoxyenated), artery (oxgenated)
• vein is a low pressure system while artery is a high pressure system
  the both are elastic. artery expands during systole and recoils during diastole

Question 7

The ability for a vain to stretch gives it the name…

Answer 7

Capicitance vessels

Question 8

Lymph nodes

Answer 8

• Cervical (drains the head and neck)
• Axillary (drains the breast and upper arm)
• Epitrochlear (hand and lower arm)
• Inguinal (lower extremities, abdominal wall and external genitalia)

Question 9

The lymphatic vessels drains into 2 main trunk…?

Answer 9

The right lympatic duct empies into the right subclavian vein
The thoracic duct empties into the left subclavian vein

Question 10

the hardening of arteries?

Answer 10

arteriosclerosis

Question 11

Doppler Ultrasonic Stethoscope

Answer 11

used for weak pulse and to monitor blood pressure

Question 12

Arterial insufficiency leads to ?

Answer 12

arterial (ischemic) ulceration

Question 13

Venous insufficiency leads to ?

Answer 13

venous (stasis) ulceration