Quiz 4

Question 1

A _____ is another part of the vascular system?

Answer 1

Vein

Question 2

True or False/ A vein, unlike an artery, travels to the heart and carry blood?

Answer 2

True

Question 3

_______ in the veins are mostly absent in the head and neck area, unlike the rest of the body.

Answer 3

Valves

Question 4

Can you label the Artery?

Answer 4

AWESOME!!

Question 5

Can you label the capillary?

Answer 5

I KNEW YOU COULD DO IT!!

Question 6

Can you label the vein?

Answer 6

YAY!!!

Question 7

After each smaller vein or VENULE drains the capillaries of the tissue the________ coalesce to_____?

Answer 7

The VENULES coalesce to become larger veins.

Question 8

Superficial veins are found where?

Answer 8

They are found immediately deep to the skin?

Question 9

Deeper veins usually accompany_____?

Answer 9

Deeper veins usually accompany larger arteries in a more protected location within the tissue.

Question 10

A/An ______is the component of the vascular system that arises from the heart, carrying blood away with it

Answer 10

An Artery

Question 11

Each artery starts as a large vessel and branches into smaller vessels, each one a smaller________

Answer 11

Artery or an ARTERIOLE

Question 12

Each arteriole branches into even smaller vessels until it becomes_________

Answer 12

A network of capillaries

Question 13

Each________ is smaller than an arteriole and can supply blood to a larger tissue area only because there are so many of them?

Answer 13

Capillary

Question 14

Can you label the arteries, muscles, and bones?

Answer 14

SO PROUD OF YOU!!

Question 15

Can you label all the veins in the profile picture?

Answer 15

AMAZING!!!

Question 16

Ok, but can you label the vessels, valve and hilus?

Answer 16

I KNEW YOU COULD!!

Question 17

Can you label the nodes and glands?

Answer 17

YES!!!

Question 18

Can you label the tonsils, palate, uvula. Auditory tube?

Answer 18

SWELL!!!!

Question 19

The lymph nodes associated with the head and neck can also be involved in the spread of infection such as dental or odontegenic infection from the teeth. True/False?

Answer 19

True

Question 20

The spread of infection occurs along_______?

Answer 20

It occurs along the connecting lymphatic vessels of the involved nodes?

Question 21

When a patient has a disease process such as cancer or infection active in a region, the regions’ ______ respond?

Answer 21

The regions’ lymph nodes respond?

Question 22

The resultant increases in size and change in consistency of the lymphoid tissue is considered____?

Answer 22

It is considered lymphadenopathy

Question 23

While lymph nodes usually assist in fighting disease, they can also aid in the spread of certain cancers, called_______?

Answer 23

Called CARCINOMAS, from epithelial tissue in the region they filter.

Question 24

The spreads of cancer from the original or primary site of the neoplasm to another or secondary is considered______?

Answer 24

It is considered METASTISIS

Question 25

Primary nodes drain the secondary site to_______?

Answer 25

They drain the secondary site to which the cancer will later metastasize.

Question 26

When involved with cancer, the lymph nodes can become bony hard, and possibly fixed to surrounding tissue, structures, and organs, thus making them_____?

Answer 26

Thus making them nonmobile as the cancer grows and spreads.

Question 27

The cancerous nodes are usually not_______?

Answer 27

They are usually not tender.

Question 28

It is important to note that nodes involved with only an acute infection are ___________?

Answer 28

Firm, mobile, and tender