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Anatomy of the CVS 2 Flashcards

1
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What makes up the endocardium and epicardium?

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Simple Squamous Epithelium + Basement Membrane + Connective Tissue

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The heart is essentially a twisted blood vessel. What are the comparable layers between the heart wall and vessel’s walls?

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Endocardium - Tunica Intima

Myocardium - Tunica Media

Epicardium - Tunica Adventitia

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The epicardium is slightly different to the tunica adventitia, what is the difference?

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The tunica adventitia lacks epithelium and a basement membrane.

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Whats the difference between the myocardium and tunica media?

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Myocardium = Cardiac Muscle
Tunica Media = Smooth Muscle & Elastic Tissue

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What are the visible differences between arteries and the accompanying vein (histologically)?

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Diameter: Vein > Artery
Thickness of Wall: Artery > Vein
Thickness of Tunica Media: Artery > Vein
Thickness of Tunica Adventitia: Vein > Artery

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Which level of vessel have the greatest individual diameter and total cross-sectional area?

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Arteries/Veins have the biggest individual diameter

Capillaries have the largest total cross-sectional area

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Look at histology images in lecture of arteries etc.

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Remember Tunica Intima is fucking tiny in an artery and Tunica Media is pretty Phat.

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Name 3 types of arteries + their function and examples

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Elastic - Large Conducting - Aorta, Common Carotid, Pulmonary Trunk
Muscular - Distributing to regions - Coronary, Radial & Femoral
Arterioles - Terminal branches supplying capillary bed.

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The aorta is an elastic artery, during which stage of the cardiac cycle is it stretched?

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During Systole

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How do elastic arteries maintain the pressure during dystole?

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The arteries recoil in order to maintain pressure even when the heart relaxes.

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What allows the elastic arteries to recoil and stretch?

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Extensive amounts of elastic fibres in the Tunica Media arranged into layers or laminae.

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How are elastic fibres produced?

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They’re secreted by smooth muscle

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How do you differentiate between veins and arteries histologically?

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Generally:
Arteries are smaller in diameter and have a thicker wall
Veins have a thicker Adventitia but a thinner Media

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How do you tell between an elastic and muscular artery?

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A muscular artery only has elastic fibres in 2 laminae, one at each edge of the T. Media.
An elastic artery has a T. Media full of dark blue elastic fibres

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What do we call the two elastic laminae in a muscular artery?

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Just under the epithelium (T. Intima) is the Internal Elastic Lamina (IEL)
Between the T. Media & T. Adventitia is the External/Outer Elastic Lamina (OEL)

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Whats differnt about an arteriole to larger arteries histlogically?

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Arterioles lack a Tunica Adventitia
The T. Media is only a couple layers of muscle thick
There is no elastic Laminae

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What are the functions of arterioles?

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Controlling Blood Pressure
Controlling blood flow to capillary beds

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18
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What nervous system innervates the arterioles?

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Sympathetic Nervous System

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What layers are present in a capillary wall?

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Just the Tunica Intima. So it can exchange nutrients and gases easily

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What are pericytes?

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Pericytes are an incomplete layer of cells around the basement membrane of capillaries.

21
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What do pericytes do?

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They contract to control the flow of blood in capillaries.

22
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Why is the BP of capillaries lower than that of the Aorta?

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Because theyre cross sectional area is larger overall than that of the aorta.

23
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What are the 3 types of capillary?

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Continuous - Complete endothelial & basal lamina layers
Fenestrated - Complete basal lamina but fenestrated endothelial lining
Discontinuous - Incomplete basal lamina and fenestrated endothelial lining.

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What is the function of continuous capillaries?

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They can control what is exchanged because it must pass through the cell or junctions to get in/out. (i.e. selective transport)

25
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What tissue are continuous capillaries found in?

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Muscle

26
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What are fenestrations?

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Pores

27
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Where are fenestrated capillaries found?

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In endocrine glands and kidney renal corpuscles

28
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Some fenestrated capillaries have protein diaphragms over the pores, what do they do/

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Protein diaphragms filter the molecules attempting to pass through by molecular weight and/or charge

29
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What do discontinuous capillaries do?

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Allow free passage of any fluid, molecule or cell.

30
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Where are discontinuous capillaries found?

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Liver
Spleen
Bone Marrow

31
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What are sinusoids?

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A type of discontinuous capillary with a large diameter and phagocytic cells in its T. Intima

32
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Where do you find sinusoids?

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Wherever larger amounts of exchange take place.
Specifically:
- liver
- Some endocrine glands

33
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What does an arteriovenous (AV) shunt do and where would you find one?

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Its a vessel enabling blood to bypass the capillary beds.
Theyre found in the skin for thermoregulation

34
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How do arterioles control which capillaries/shunts receive blood?

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Precapillary sphincters can control what capillaries or shunts are open.

35
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Describe the structure of veins?

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The T. Intima is thin
The IEL & OEL are thin or absent
The T Media are thin or absent
T. Adventitia is made of collagenous tissue

36
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What prevents backflow out of veins?

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Valves projecting from the endothelium (T. Intima)

37
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Which is thicker a deep or superficial vein?

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Deep veins are thick walled and superficial veins are thin walled.

38
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The superficial vein has no support, what supports the deep vein?

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The deep fascia and muscle

39
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In what tissue are superficial veins found?

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Inside the superficial fascia

40
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Where do we most commonly find lymph nodes?

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Alongside major veins
Around the origins of major arteries

41
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How is flow kept in the right direction in the lymphatic system?

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VALVES

42
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Are lymph capillaries fenestrated?

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Ye….NO

43
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What lines the blind ended lymphatic capillaries?

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A rudimentary basal lamina (often absent)
Very thin endothelium

44
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The lymph capillaries are kept at the -ve hydrostatic pressure so they can drain fluid from the tissues. How are they kept open (instead of being flattened by the higher pressure outside.)

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Anchoring filaments
They’re fine collagenous filaments that link the endothelial cells to the surrounding tissue.

45
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How do we easily tell a lymph capillary from venules and arterioles?

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Lymph capillaries lack any RBCs in they’re lumen, it should be clear.

46
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What supplies blood to the blood vessels themselves?

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The Vasa Vasorum (“vessels of the vessels)

47
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Some blood vessels contain lymphatics, what layer are these found in?

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The T. Adventitia

48
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What nerves supply blood vessels?

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Sympathetic and parasympathetic.

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