Arteries............ =[ Flashcards
What are the 4 principle branches of the aorta?
The Ascending Aorta
Arch of the Aorta
Thoracic Descending Aorta
Abdominal Descending Aorta
What Branch of the aorta feeds the coronary arteries?
Ascending Aorta
What feeds these vessels:
Brachiocephalic trunk
Left common carotid artery
Left subclavian artery
Arch of the Aorta
What does the Brachiocephalic trunk branch into?
Right common carotid artery: Right side of head and neck
Right subclavian artery: into the Axilla
Left common carotid artery provides blood to what parts of the body, and branches into what 2 vessels
Left side of head and neck
External carotid
Internal carotid
What feeds blood into the Internal structures of scull (eyeball, ear, brain)
Internal carotid
What feeds blood into external structures of skull
External carotid
What feeds oxygenated blood into the left upper limb?
Left subclavian artery
What arteries branch into these:
Axillary artery
Brachial artery
Radial artery
Ulnar artery
Subclavian arteries
What artery supplies shoulder?
Axillary artery
What artery supplies upper arm
Brachial artery
What artery Supplies lateral portion of forearm, wrist and hand
Radial artery
What artery Supplies medial portion of forearm, wrist and hand
Ulnar artery
Thoracic Aorta branches into what arteries?
Bronchial arteries
Esophageal arteries
Posterior intercostal arteries
Superior phrenic arteries
What Branch of the Thoracic Aorta feeds the Esophagus?
- Bronchial arteries
- Esophageal arteries
- Posterior intercostal arteries
- Superior phrenic arteries
- Esophageal arteries…..