blood vessels

Question 1

blood normally flows into a capillary bed from

Answer 1

a metarteriole

Question 2

plasma solutes enter the tissue fluid most easily from

Answer 2

fenestrated capillaries

Question 3

a blood vessel adapted to withstand great fluctuations in blood pressure would be expected to have

Answer 3

an elastic tunica media

Question 4

a circulatory pathway in which the blood flows through two capillary beds in series before it returns to the heart is called

Answer 4

a portal system

Question 5

intestinal blood flows into the liver by way of

Answer 5

the hepatic portal vein

Question 6

blood islands first form in the embryonic

Answer 6

yolk sac

Question 7

All of the following blood vessels except the ___ are located in the upper limb. a. cephalic vein b. small saphenous vein c. brachial artery d. circumflex humeral arteries e. metacarpal arteries

Answer 7

small saphenous vein

Question 8

the adult aortic arch develops from the embryonic

Answer 8

conus arteriosus

Question 9

the adult aortic arch develops from the embryonic

Answer 9

left aortic arch IV

Question 10

the two ___ veins unite like an upside- down Y to form the inferior vena cava

Answer 10

r/l iliac veins

Question 11

filtration pores are characteristic of ___ capillaries

Answer 11

fenestrated

Question 12

the capillaries of skeletal muscles are of the structural type called ___

Answer 12

continuous capillaries

Question 13

the epithelium that lines the inside of a blood vessel is called ___

Answer 13

endothelium

Question 14

the two ___ veins unite like an upside- down Y to form the inferior vena cava

Answer 14

common iliac

Question 15

carotid and aortic bodies are called ___ because they respond to changes in blood chemistry

Answer 15

chemoreceptors

Question 16

movement across the capillary endothelium by the uptake and release of fluid droplets is called ___

Answer 16

transcytosis

Question 17

the two largest veins that empty into the right atrium are the ___ and ___

Answer 17

superior vena cava, inferior vena cava

Question 18

the pressure sensors in the major arteries near the head are called ___

Answer 18

carotid sinuses

Question 19

most of the blood supply to the brain comes from a ring of arterial anastomoses called the ___

Answer 19

cerebral arteriole circle

Question 20

the major superficial veins of the arm are the ___ on the medial side and ___ on the lateral side

Answer 20

basilic, cephalic