Cardiovascular - Dry Room 3

Question 1

What v.level does the aortic arch begin and end?

Answer 1

T4

Question 2

What v.level does the abdo aorta split into the common iliac arteries?

Answer 2

L4

Question 3

What v.level do the common iliac arteries split and what do they split into?

Answer 3

L5

Internal and external iliac arteries

Question 4

How many coronary arteries spilt off the aorta?

Answer 4

2 - left and right

Question 5

What are the 3 arteries that split off of the aortic arch? Name them in the order blood passes.

Answer 5

Brachiocephalic
Left common carotid
Left subclavian artery

Question 6

Where does the right common carotid start?

Answer 6

Splits off of the brachiocephalic artery

Question 7

What are the 4 things that branch off of the thoracic aorta?

Answer 7

Bronchial arteries
Oesophageal arteries
Pericardial arteries
Posterior intercostal arteries

Question 8

Of these 4 things that branch off the thoracic aorta - which one can be seen on a wet specimen?

Answer 8

Posterior intercostals - to view them check the intercostal space and see if it comes off the aorta

Question 9

What does the internal iliac arteries supply?

Answer 9

Pelvic viscera

Question 10

What does the external iliac arteries become?

Answer 10

Femoral artery

Question 11

What are branches called in the venous system?

Answer 11

Tributaries

Question 12

What are the great veins that enter the heart and also drain blood from around body?

Answer 12

Superior and inferior vena cava

Question 13

Where can the superior vena cava be seen?

Answer 13

Anterior and to the right of the ascending aorta

Question 14

Is the pulmonary trunk the pulmonary artery or vein?

Answer 14

Artery

Question 15

What are the main tributaries of the superior vena cava?

Answer 15

Left and Right Brachiocephalic veins

Azygos vein

Question 16

Where is the brachiocephalic vein? What does the brachiocephalic vein become as it goes along?

Answer 16

Clavicle area - can be seen alongside the brachiocephalic artery

Becomes the subclavian vein

Question 17

What tributaries are there of the inferior vena cava?

Answer 17

Left and right common iliac vein

Question 18

Where does the azgos venous system drain blood from and into what?

Answer 18

From the posterior intercostal veins and into the superior vena cava

Question 19

Where can the azygos veins be seen?

Answer 19

Immediatly to the right of the thoracic aorta

Question 20

What are the azgos veins called on the left side?

Answer 20

Hemiazygos veins

Question 21

What does the hemiazygos vein drain into and at what v level?

Answer 21

The azygos vein at the T8/9 level

Question 22

Where do intercostal nerves arise from?

Answer 22

Ventral ramus of the spinal nerve

Question 23

What drains into the internal thoracic vein?

Answer 23

Anterior intercostal veins

Question 24

What artery arises from the internal thoracic artery?

Answer 24

The anterior intercostal arteries

Question 25

What side of the chest wall drains lymph into the thoracic duct?

Answer 25

Left side

Question 26

Where does the right side of the chest wall drain?

Answer 26

Right lymphatic duct

Question 27

Which artery gives rise to the internal thoracic artery?

Answer 27

Subclavian artery

Question 28

What vein drains the blood from the posterior intercostal veins on the LEFT side of the wall?

Answer 28

Hemiazygos veins

Question 29

Where does the hemiazygos drain and what does that drain into?

Answer 29

Into azygous which drains into superior vena cava

Question 30

What does the internal thoracic artery come off of and what comes off of it?

Answer 30

Comes off of sub clavian artery

Gives off anterior intercostal arteries

Question 31

What does the thoracic duct (lymphatics) lie between?

Answer 31

Between the azygos vein and descending thoracic aorta

Question 32

Where does the thoracic duct commence?

Answer 32

L1

Question 33

Where does the thoracic duct drain into?

Answer 33

Junction of the left jugular vein and left subclavian vein

Question 34

Where does the thoracic duct drain from?

Answer 34

Everywhere besides right upper (right chest, right arm, right head)

Question 35

What drains the right upper side?

Answer 35

Right lymphatic duct

Question 36

What does the right lymphatic duct drain into?

Answer 36

The junction of the right internal jugular vein and right subclavian vein

Question 37

What is the part where the thoracic duct arises from at L1 called?

Answer 37

Cisterna Chyli