Blood Vessels - Novak

Question 1

Name the layers of the blood vessels

Answer 1

Tunica intima, tunica media, tunica externa

Question 2

What type of vessel has the thickest tunica media?

Answer 2

Arteries

Question 3

What type of vessel only has tunica intima?

Answer 3

Capillaries

Question 4

What type of vessel has the thickest tunica externa?

Answer 4

Veins

Question 5

Starting from elastic artery, go through the pathway

Answer 5

Elastic artery, muscular artery, arteriole, continuous capillary, capillaries, fenestrated capillary, venules, medium veins, large veins

Question 6

What is special about veins?

Answer 6

Have valves and no specific shape; require muscles to move blood

Question 7

What are varicose veins?

Answer 7

Valves do not function properly and blood pools in the superficial limbs

Question 8

What are the blood pressure values starting from the arteries to the veins?

Answer 8

100, 35, 18, 2

Question 9

What are the factors that contribute to total peripheral resistance?

Answer 9

Vascular resistance
Blood viscosity
Turbulence

Question 10

Pulse pressure

Answer 10

Difference between systolic and diastolic pressure

Question 11

Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP)

Answer 11

Diastolic pressure plus 1/3 of the Systolic pressure

Question 12

What kind of pressure would a person with 140/90 have?

Answer 12

Hypertension

Question 13

What kind of pressure would a person with 120/90 have?

Answer 13

Normal

Question 14

What kind of pressure would a person with 90/60 have?

Answer 14

Hypotension

Question 15

What is orthostatic hypotension?

Answer 15

When a person is lying down, and there is a sudden change in body position