Anatomy

Question 1

What is the superficial fascia made up of?

Answer 1

loose connective tissue and fat

Question 2

What is deep fascia made out of?

Answer 2

tough sheet

dense connective tissue

Question 3

How is the deep fascia arranged in limbs?

Answer 3

forms compartments separated by intermuscular septa which invests/surroudn the muscles

Question 4

What are the compartments caleld in the thigh?

Answer 4

fascia lata

Question 5

What separates the subclavian artery from the axillary artery?

Answer 5

clavicle

Question 6

What does the axillary artery become next?

Answer 6

brachial artery

Question 7

Is the ulnar artery medial or lateral to the radial artery?

Answer 7

medial

Question 8

What does the ulnar artery become?

Answer 8

superficial palmar arch

Question 9

What does the radial artery become?

Answer 9

deep palmar arch

Question 10

What vein joins the basilic and the cephalic veins?

Answer 10

median cubital vein

Question 11

What vein medially returns blood to the axillary vein?

Answer 11

basilic vein

Question 12

What vein returns blood laterally to the axillary vein?

Answer 12

cephalic vein

Question 13

What is the name for the veins that accompany the brachial artery?

Answer 13

venae comitantes

Question 14

What vein do the cephalic and the basilic veins drain into?

Answer 14

axillary vein

Question 15

What separates the femoral and popliteal arteries?

Answer 15

adductor hiatus

Question 16

What is the first artery to branch off from the femoral artery?

Answer 16

profunda femoris

Question 17

What does the popliteal srtery bifurcate into?

Answer 17

posterior and anterior tibial

Question 18

Where are the posterior and anterior tibial arteries situated in the leg?

Answer 18

in the anterior and posterior compartments

Question 19

What srtery branches from the posterior tibial artery?

Answer 19

fibular artery

Question 20

What does the posterior tibial artery become after the ankle joint?

Answer 20

lateral plantar artery

Question 21

What artery branches from the lateral plantar artery?

Answer 21

medial plantar artery

Question 22

What does the lateral plantar artery become?

Answer 22

plantar arch

Question 23

What area does the planta arch artery supply?

Answer 23

sole of the foot

Question 24

What does the anterior tibial artery become after the ankle joint?

Answer 24

dorsalis pedis

Question 25

What artery supplies the dorsum of the foot?

Answer 25

arcuate artery

Question 26

What are the 2 superfical veins in the leg?

Answer 26

great and small saphenous veins

Question 27

Where do both the great and small saphenous veins arise from?

Answer 27

dorsal venous arch

Question 28

Where is the great saphenous vein found in relation to the malleolus?

Answer 28

in front of the medial malleolus

Question 29

Where is the small saphenous vein found in relation to the malleolus?

Answer 29

behind lateral malleolus

Question 30

Which vein passes by the lateral malleolus?

Answer 30

small saphenous vein

Question 31

Which vein passes by the medial malleolus

Answer 31

great saphenous vein

Question 32

What are the 2 deep veins draining the lower limb?

Answer 32

popliteal vein and femoral vein

Question 33

What vein does the great saphenous vein drain into?

Answer 33

femoral vein

Question 34

What vein does the small saphenous vein drain into?

Answer 34

popliteal vein

Question 35

Where does the small saphenous vein travel in the leg?

Answer 35

posterior midline of leg

Question 36

Where does the great saphenous vein travel in the leg?

Answer 36

medial aspect of the limb

Question 37

How do varicose veins arise?

Answer 37

incompetent valves result in reverse flow into superficial veins which become weak and dilated

Question 38

Whats the most common area for venous ulceration?

Answer 38

gaiter area-medial aspect of the lower leg

Question 39

What is the difference between how lymphatics travel in the limb and in the abdomen?

Answer 39

in the limb they follow veins whereas in the abdomen they follow arteries

Question 40

Which lymph nodes does lymph from the upper limb travel to?

Answer 40

axillary lymph nodes

Question 41

What lymph nodes do the popliteal nodes travel to?

Answer 41

superficial and deep inguinal nodes