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47 Cards in this Set
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5 Main Types of Blood Vessels |
Arteriers - Take blood away from the heart Arterioles - Smaller branching arteries Capillaries - Smaller aterioles Venules - Capullaries form to make these Veins - Venules form to make these and bring blood back to the heart |
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Anastomosis |
The union of branches of two or more arteries supplying the same body region |
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Osmolarity |
Measurement of concentration of a solute |
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Factors affecting blood pressure |
Resistance Viscocity Vessel Diameter and Length Blood volume |
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What are negative feedback systems for the heart? |
Cardiac Output - How much blood is pumped Resistance - controls constriction Blood Volume - controls amount of blood |
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Systole |
The point right at peak of contrsction |
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Diastole |
Point lowest before contraction |
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Sphygmomanometet |
Device used to measure blood pressure |
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Korot-Koff Sounds |
The noise of your blood pumping heard through a Sphygmomanometer to find your blood pressure |
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Spleen (where is it and what does it do) |
Where - Left side of the body, behind the stomach/next to it, and just a little higher than the pancreas
Purpose - largest mass of lymphatic tissue in the body - has all immune responses power - stores up to a third of platelets - filters blood for immune reasons |
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Lymphatic nodes (where are they and what are their purpose) |
Where - throughout the body but majorly found in the neck, armpits, and groin areas Purpose - Hold lymphocytes, these act as fighters against foreign invasion by bacteria, viruses, cancer cells, or toxins. Lymphocytes also help control the immune response. Notes - No Capsule |
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What is the Cerebral Arterial Circle/Circle of Willis |
All the arteries in the brain |
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What is the Brachiocephalic Trunk Artery and where is it? |
Only on the right side of the body anf splits off from the right common carotid artery. Theres only one of these when theres two for the vein equivalent |
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Subclavian artery |
Artery running along the clavicle |
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Axillary artery is? |
The artery along the armpit |
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Thoraic and Abdominal Aortas are located? |
Thoraic is in the chest area and abdominal is in the lower torso area, duh |
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Celiac Trunk |
Artery branching anterior to the kidneys |
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Where is the Common Hepatic Artery |
Right offshoot artery that snakes anteriorly from the Thoraic Aorta below the liver, to the right side of the heart |
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Where is the splenic artery |
Inside the spleen |
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Where is the Superior Mesenteric Artery |
Its going off the right side (patients right) of the abdominal aorta below the pancreas, and capilarilies into the ascending colot and small intestines |
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Sigmoid colon is? |
Sigmond colon is the colon that transports urine directly to the gonadials |
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Where is the Inferior Mesenteric Artery |
Going off the left side of the Abdominal Aorta connecting into the Sigmoid Colon |
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Where is the Brachial Artery |
Its the arm to forearm Artery |
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Suprarenal arteries are? |
Going anteriorly from the renals |
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Renal arteries are? |
Going off from the abdominal aorta and connecting to the kidneys |
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Where are the Common, internal, and external Iliacs? |
Along the lower abdominal is the common iliac descending laterally on both sides then it continues into the external and finally the internal branches medially into the crotchal |
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Where is the radial artery? |
Artery connected to the thumb |
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Where is the Ulnar Artery? |
Artery connected to the palm, opposite of thumb |
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Where is the popliteal artery? |
Artery along the knee |
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Where is the Anterior and Posterior Tibial arteries? |
Front and back of inside of the leg arteries |
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Fibular artery? |
Artery alongside the outside of the leg |
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Brachiocephalic Vein is where? |
Branching off Vena Cava and theres two of them going up into the neck |
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Where is the Cephalic Vein? |
It runs up the side of the arm into the shoulder |
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Azygos vein? |
In the back behind the heart |
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Where are the hepatic veins? |
Veins inside the liver |
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Where is the Hepatic Portal Vein? |
Vein connecting from Liver to Stomach |
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Basilic Vein is where? |
Along the inside of the arm on the ulnar side |
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Where is the median cubital vein? |
Inside of elbow |
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Where is the median antebrachial vein? |
Inside of mid forearm |
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Where is the Great Saphenous Vein |
Runs along the inside of the legs |
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Small Saphenous Vein is where? |
Along the backside of the fibia and runs through to connect into the popliteal vein (knee vein) |
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Where is the popliteal vein/artery? |
Knee |
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Foramen Ovale grows into? |
Ductus Arterious And Then Ligamentum Ateriosum |
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Ductus Venosus grows into? |
Ligamentum Venosum |
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Umbilical Vein grows into? |
Ligamentum Teres |
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Cisterna Chili is what? |
A Lymphatic Trunk that flows lymph stuff down on the Lumbar System |
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Which ones has a capsule surrounding it and which one doesent A lymph node or a lymph nodule |
Lymph nodule has no capsule Lymph node does have a capsule |