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What are the 3 types of blood vessels? Direction of fluid?

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Arteries: away from the heart
Capillaries: sites of exchange
Veins: Toward the hear

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State if the blood is oxygenated or deoxygenated in veins and arteries?

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Arterties: oxygenated
Veins: Deoxygenated

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What is the pathway of the vessels beginning from the heart?

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elastic arteries -> muscular arteries -> arterioles -> capillaries -> venules -> veins

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What type of blood do the veins and arteries carry in the systemic circulation?

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arteries carry oxygenated blood and the veins carry deoxygenated blood

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What type of blood do the veins and arteries carry in the pulmonary circulation?

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arteries carry deoxygenated blood to the lungs and the veins carry oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart

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What are the 3 layers in blood vessels from deep to superficial?

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tunica intima, tunica media, and tunica externa

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What is the space containing blood in the blood vessels?

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lumen

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Which layer of the blood vessel consist of smooth muscle and elastin, and muscle activity regulated by the vasomotor nerve fibers?

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tunica media

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Which layer in the blood vessel walls are connective tissue (collagen), reinforces vessels, and anchors it to nearby organs?

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Tunica externa

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Which layer in the blood contains blood in lumen, endothelium?

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Tunica intima

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What is the purpose of the endothelium in the blood vessel walls?

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minimizes friction

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Which layer in the blood vessels wall is responsible for vasodilation and vasoconstriction?

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Tunica media

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Which vessel consist of only the tunica intima?

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capillaries

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Which vessel consist of a thin tunica media and thick tunica externa?

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veins

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Which vessel consist of a thick tunica media and thin tunica externa?

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arteries

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What are the three types of arteries?

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elastic, muscular, and arterioles

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Also known as conducting arteries, these have a large, thick walls, arteries near the heart, tunica media with elastic tissue

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elastic arteries

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Also known as the distributing arteries, these arteries distribute blood to specific organs.

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Muscular arteries

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Leads into capillary beds, control minute by minute blood flow by vasoconstriction or vasodilation and important in BP regulation

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arterioles

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How do the elastic arteries act as pressure reservoirs?

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expand during systole t receive blood and recoiling during diastole to push blood forward

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What is the function of the capillaries?

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exchange of materials between blood and interstitial fluid

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What are the three structural types capillaries?

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continuous, fenestrated, and sinusoid

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Which type of capillary is the most common, primarily in the skin and muscles, and has intercellular clefts?

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continuous

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What is the function of intercellular clefts?

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allow passage of fluids and small solutes

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Which type of capillary is have endothelial cells that increase permeability, and found where absorption or filtrate formation occurs?
fenestrated capillaries
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What is the location where absorption or filtrate occur in capillaries?
small intestine and kidneys
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Which type of capillary has fenestrations, large intercellular clefts, and incomplete basement membrane, allows large molecules and blood cells t pass between blood and surrounding tissues?
sinusoid capillaries
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What is the location that allows large molecules to pass between blood and surrounding tissues?
liver, bone marrow, and spleen
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Which disorder has thicker and stiffer artery walls?
arteriosclerosis
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Which disorder has lipid plaques form and protrude into vessel lumen?
atherosclerosis
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What id a network of capillaries called?
capillary bed
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Define microcirculation.
flow of blood from arteriole to venule
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What directly connects arterioles and venule at opposite ends of bed?
vascular shunt
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What are true capillaries?
actual exchange vessels
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What is the function of the precapillary sphincter?
acts as a valve to regulate blood flow into the capillaries
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What occurs when the precapillary sphincter closes?
blood flows through metarteriole thoroughfare channel and bypasses true capillaries
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What do capillaries unite to form?
venules
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What do venules join to form?
Veins
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What do veins have that arteries DO NOT?
larger lumens and thinner walls, and valves
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What's another name from veins?
capacitance vessels
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Why do veins have such thin walls?
BP is relatively low and F is steady rather than pulsatile
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What are varicose veins?
veins that are tortuous and dilated due to competent (leaky) valves. Promoted by conditions that impede venous return
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What are interconnections between blood vessels?
Vascular anatomoses
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Define Blood Flow (F).
volume of blood flowing through a vessel, organ, or entire circulation in a give time
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What is a force that blood exerts against a vessel wall?
BP
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True or False. The greater the difference in blood pressure, between 2 ends of a vessel, the greater the F through that vessel.
True
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What is the opposition to flow that results from friction of blood against vessel walls?
Resistance
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What are the three sources of resistance?
blood viscosity, total blood vessel length, and blood vessel diameter
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For each source of resistance, state whether is increases or decreases resistance?
Viscosity: increases resistance Blood vessel length: increases resistance Blood vessel diameter: decreases resistance
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What is systemic BP?
pumping action of heart generating F. Pressure results when flow is opposed by resistance
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Where is Systemic BP highest and steepest?
highest in aorta and steepest in arterioles
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What is the highest arterial BP of a cardiac cycle? Give name and number in mmHg
Systolic pressure. 120mmHg
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What is the lowest arterial BP of a cardiac cycle? Give name and number in mmHg
Diastolic pressure. 70-80 mmHg
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What is the pressure wave caused by alternating expansion and recoil of arteries during each cardiac cycle?
pulse
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What is the difference between systolic and diastolic pressures?
pulse pressure
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What is the average arterial pressure during a single cardiac cycle?
Mean arterial pressure (MAP)
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As the distance increases from the heart, MAP and Pulse pressure due to what?
friction between blood and vessel walls and loss of elastic recoil
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What range of numbers does BP decline in capillary BP?
35-17mmHg
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What range of numbers does BP decline in venous BP?
17-0mmHg
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Which 2 functional adaptations are important to venous return?
Muscular and respiratory pumps
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How does the muscular pump functions?
skeletal muscle activity "milks" blood toward the heart
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How does the respiratory pump functions?
pressure changes in ventral body cavity during breathing move blood toward heart
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What are the 2 ways BP is controlled?
short term and long term regulation
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Describe short-term regulation
alters BP by changing peripheral resistance and resistance. Neural and hormonal
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Describe long-term regulation
alters BP by adjusting blood volume (kidneys)
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Where are the cardio centers located and their function?
in the medulla oblongata and the function is to regulate heart rate and force of contraction
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What are the 2 cardiac centers?
cardioacceleratory and cardioinhibitory
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What is the function of he vasomotor center?
regulates blood vessel diameter
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The role of the vasomotor center involved vasomotor fibers and tone, describe both.
Vasomotor fibers: transmits impulses at steady rate Vasomotor tone: keep arterioles in state of moderate constriction
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Which receptors respond to changes in arterial pressure and stretch?
Baroreceptors
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Where are baroreceptors located?
carotid sinuses and aortic arch
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When stretched where do baroreceptors send impulses?
cardiovascular center
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How do baroreceptors respond when BP rises?
cardioinhibitory center is stimulated, cardioacceleratory center and vasomotor are inhibited. Parasympathetic
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When BP rises in baroreceptors how do the blood vessels respond?
vasodilation
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How do baroreceptors respond when BP drops?
cardioinhibitory center is inhibited, cardioacceleratory center and vasomotor center are stimulated
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When BP rises in baroreceptors how do the blood vessels respond?
vasoconstriction
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Which hormones are involved in short-term hormonal controls?
ADH, ANP, adrenal medulla hormones, and angiotensin II
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What are the effects of NE and EP in short-term regulation?
increase BP, CO, & R
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What are the effects of Angiotensin II in short-term regulation?
increases R, BP, and promotes vasoconstriction
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What are the effects of ADH in short-term regulation?
increases R & BP, vasoconstriction
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What are the effects of ANP in short-term regulation?
lowers BP, inhibits NA+ reabsorption, promotes vasodilation. Usually occurs after consuming NaCl
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What is another name for long-term regulation?
Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone Mechanism
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What is the function of the long-term regulation?
kidneys restore and maintain BP homeostasis by regulating blood volume
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What does the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone Mechanism affect?
desire to drink and urine production
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What is the sequence of Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone Mechanism ?
When BP or blood volume drops, kidneys releases renin, which act as an enzyme acting on angiotensinogen converting it to angiotensis I circulating in the plasma -> angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) converts Angiotensin I to Angiotensin II
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What are the results of Angiotensin II in long-term regulation?
vasoconstriction, increase R, activated thirsts center (in hypothalamus), stimulates release of ADH and aldosterone
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What is hypertension?
sustained increased in either systolic or diastolic BP
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Which type of hypertension has no underlying identifiable cause?
primary (essential)
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Which type of hypertension is due to indentifiable disorders?
secondary
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What is the BP of someone who has hypotension?
60/90
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If Jack's BP suddenly rises from suddenly rising from reclining or sitting, what does he suffer from?
orthostatic hypotension
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What is tissue perfusion?
F through body tissues
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True or false. Velocity of F is directly related to total cross-sectional area of vascular bed
False. Velocity of F is inversely related...
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What is the term defined as the ability of a tissue to automatically adjust its F to match its metabolic demands?
Autoregulation
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How is autoregulation controlled?
by modifying diameter of arterioles
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Why does vasodilation of arterioles and relaxation of precapillary sphincters occur?
decrease in O2 levels, accumulation of ions, and inflammatory chemicals
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How does capillary exchanges occur?
movement of substances between blood plasma and interstitial fluid
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Which mechanisms does capillary exchange use?
diffusion and bulk flow
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How do liquid solubles move in capillary exchange?
via diffusion
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How do molecules that are not liquid soluble move in capillary exchange?
through fenestrations or intercellular clefts
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How do large substances move in capillary exchange?
vesicular transport
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Define bulk flow.
movement of water and small solutes across capillary walls between blood and interstitial fluid
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Filtration is movement inside or outside the capillaries?
outside
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Reabsorption is movement inside or outside capillaries?
inside
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Which type of pressure pushes water out by exerting force by pressing fluid against a wall?
Hydrostatic pressure
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Which type of pressure pulls water in by large indiffusible molecules that are unable to cross capillary walls?
colloid osmotic pressure
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Hpc
Capillary hydrostatic pressure. pushes fluid out of capillary into interstitial fluid
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HPif
interstitial fluid hydrostatic pressure. tends to push fluid into capillary. Usually assumed to be 0
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OPc
capillary colloid osmotic pressure. tends to pull fluid into capillary. Mainly albumin
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OPif
Interstitial fluid osmotic pressure. tends to pull fluid out of capillary
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What are the outward pressures?
HPc and OPif
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What are the inward pressures?
HPif and OPc
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What is the equation for NFP?
(HPc+OPif)-(HPif+OPc)
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If NFP is positive what does this indicate?
filtration HP>OP
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If NFP is negative what does this indicate?
reabsorption OP>HP
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True or false. Slightly more fluid is filtered out than is reabsorbed.
True
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What collects the excess fluid returning it to blood?
lymphatic vessels
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What is any condition in which blood vessels are inadequately filled and blood cannot circulate normally?
circulatory shock
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Large-scale loss of blood or body fluids
hypovolemic shock
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Inefficient heart cannot sustain adequate circulation
cardiogenic shock
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Extreme vasodilation and decreased peripheral resistance
Vascular shock
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This type of shock is due to anaphalaxis
vascular shock
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This type of shock is due to dehydration ad excessive sweating?
hypovolemic shock
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This type of shock is due to not enough blood being pumped out?
cardiogenic shock

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