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26 Cards in this Set
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What type of artery is shown by the arrow? |
Muscular Artery |
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vein |
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Media of a muscular artery |
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External Elastic Membrane of a muscular artery |
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What is the dark line the 2 arrows are pointing to? |
Internal Elastic Membrane of a muscular artery |
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Intima of a muscular artery |
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External Elastic Membrane of a muscular artery
*Notice how thin and discontinuous the membrane is |
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Adventitia of a large muscular artery |
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Internal elastic membrane of small muscular artery
* notice its less distinct than in the large muscular artery |
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Small vein
*notice how its collapsed looking |
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Vaso Vasorum = vessels that supply the media of large blood vessels |
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Media of elastic artery (aorta) |
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Adventitia of elastic artery (aorta) |
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Elastic Stain of an Elastic Artery (elastic fibers stain darkly) |
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Internal Elastic Membrane of an elastic artery
*Notice how thick and defined it appears |
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Endothelial layer of the intima of an elastic artery |
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Elastic fiber interspersed between muscle cell in the media layer of an elastic artery |
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(pointing to dark wavy line) |
Elastic fiber in a vein
*Notice that the vein is deflated looking and there are less and more irregular elastic fibers |
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Smooth muscle in a vein |
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Endothelial layer of intima of a vein |
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Cardiac Muscle
*notice the branching of myocytes, striations, and centrally located nuclei |
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Intercalated Disk of mycardium |
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Lipofuscin - "wear n' tear" pigment that causes aged hearts to appear more brown |
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Capillary
*notice how its only 1 RBC thick |
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Endothelial cell nucleus lining a capillary |
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Left = Nuclei of a hypertrophied myocyte (indicated by irregular shape of nucleus)
Right = Nuclei of an endothelial cell lining a capillary |