Blood & Lymph Systems

Question 1

What is wrong with someone if they are hypervolemic or hypovolemic?

Answer 1

Hyper = too much blood
Hypo = not enough blood

Question 2

How much blood is in the avg male/female?

Answer 2

Male = 5-6 L
Female = 4-5 L

Question 3

What is the avg pH of blood?

Answer 3

7.35-7.45

Question 4

What is the temperature of blood?

Answer 4

38C

Question 5

What happens to red BC’s during development?

Answer 5

Intracellular structures (ie. nucleus) are ejected from the cell

Question 6

What is responsible for blood clotting?

Answer 6

Platelets

Question 7

Continuous capillaries go ____ the heart and fenestrated capillaries go ____ the heart.

Answer 7

away from, towards

Question 8

What are the three layers of vessel walls?

Answer 8

Tunica interna, tunica media, tunica externa

Question 9

Which is the thickest layer of the vessel wall?

Answer 9

Tunica media

Question 10

Do we have control over the diameter of arteries or veins?

Answer 10

Arteries

Question 11

What is the benefit of fenestrated capillaries?

Answer 11

The pores allow us to draw in things from our cells & into the blood stream

Question 12

What is the purpose of elastic arteries?

Answer 12

They are the largest, and even out pressure surges, making the movement of blood flow constant/consistent

Question 13

What is the purpose of muscular arteries?

Answer 13

they distribute blood to skeletal muscles, vasoconstrict and vasodilate

Question 14

What is the purpose of arterioles?

Answer 14

Delivering blood to capillaries

Question 15

What is the purpose of capillaries?

Answer 15

Connecting arterioles and venules

Question 16

In medium/large veins, which layer is the thickest?

Answer 16

Tunica externa

Question 17

Off of the aortic arch stems the ______ and ______ arteries.

Answer 17

R/L subclavian and R/L common carotid

Question 18

The subclavian artery turns into the ____ artery at the first rib.

Answer 18

axillary

Question 19

the ____ ____ artery goes into the brain, while the ____ ____ artery goes to the face and neck.

Answer 19

internal carotid, external carotid

Question 20

The internal thoracic artery goes to the ____

Answer 20

breasts

Question 21

the external iliac artery becomes the _____ artery at the inguinal ligament.

Answer 21

femoral

Question 22

The deep brachial arteryis posterior and the artery is anterior to the ____ bone.

Answer 22

humerus

Question 23

the ____ ____ vein goes into the brain, while the ____ ___ vein goes to the outside of the skull

Answer 23

internal jugular, external jugular

Question 24

The ______ vein is on the medial side of the arm and the _____ vein is on the lateral side of the arm

Answer 24

basilic, cephalic

Question 25

Lymph flows (actively/passively) and blood flows (actively/passively)

Answer 25

passively, actively

Question 26

What is the function of the lymphatic system?

Answer 26

immune response

Question 27

The ____ lymphatic duct drains the upper right corner of the body, while the ____ lymphatic duct drains the rest of the body

Answer 27

right, left

Question 28

What is the difference between B- and T- lymphocytes?

Answer 28

B-lymphocytes produce antibodies targeted to destroy specific antigens, while T-lymphocytes themselves destroy pathogens.

Question 29

What are Natural Killer (NK) cells?

Answer 29

they are for surveillance, circulating through peripheral tissue

Question 30

What do secondary lymphatic structures do?

Answer 30

they initiate the immune response

Question 31

Where do T-lymphocytes come from?

Answer 31

the thymus gland

Question 32

What does the spleen do.

Answer 32

filters abnormal blood cells out, stores iron