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Types of Blood Vessels

1) Conducting arteries


2) Muscular arteries


3) Arterioles


4) Capillaries


5) Venules


6) Veins

Tunica adventitia (tissue type)

Areolar tissue




-arteries, veins, etc

Tunica media (tissue types)

Smooth muscle and elastic fibers




-arteries, veins, etc

Tunica intima (tissue type)

Simple squamous epithelium and basement membrane




-all types of blood vessels

Arteries have more or less elastic lamina?

More

Blood pressure is from..?

Arteries

Types of capillaries

1) Continuous




2) Fenestrated




3) Sinusoids

Continuous capillaries

-basal lamina




-many pinocytotic cells




-incomplete juntional complexes

Blood-brain barrier capillaries

-basal lamina




-few pinocytotic cells




-complete junctional complexes

Fenestrated capillaries

-basal lamina




-many pinocytotic cells




-fenestra (pores)

Sinusoidal capillaries

-incomplete basal lamina




-many pinocytotic cells




-large sinuses

Pericyte

Contractile connective tissue that directs blood flow (face; blushing)

Metarteriole

Beginning of capillary bed

Thoroughfare channel

End of capillary bed

Venule

Drains to vein

Venous valve

Moves blood to heart (v-shape)

Whats the largest vein in the body?

Great saphenous vein