Week 2 - Icy Review

Question 1

Muscular arteries

Answer 1

1. exaggerated tunic media,
2. Distributing
3. most named arteries
4. control blood flow to organs

Question 2

Elastic arteries -

Answer 2

1. closest to the heart
2. conducting blood away from the heart
3. deal with swings in pressure

Question 3

Sinusoidal capillaries

Answer 3

1. highly leaky
2. found in bone marrow, spleen, & liver& adrenal medulla
3. Slow blood flow

Question 4

Veins & Venules

Answer 4

1. capacitance vessels holding up to 60% of blood volume
2. common site of edema due to porosity

Question 5

Arterioles

Answer 5

1. control delivery to tissues vis sphincters
2. create most resistance in the periphery
3. Resistance
4. flows to capillaries (metarterioles)
5. Sphincters regulate

Question 6

Continuous capillaries

Answer 6

1. Most common and most numerous
2. Least leaky
3. skin & Muscle
4. Not found in CNS because of BBB
5. Not found in cornea or lens

Question 7

Fenestrated capillaries

Answer 7

1. Windowed
2. medium leaky
3. Pores - absorption & Filtration

small intestine, kidneys, endocrine organs