Cardiovascular System - The Veins

Question 1

What are the Dural Sinuses?

Answer 1

• venous channels between the two layers of the dura mater

Question 2

What Dural Sinus drains the orbital cavity?

Answer 2

• Cavernous sinus

Question 3

What does the superior sagittal sinus drain?

Answer 3

• Cerebral spinal fluid through the arachnoid granulations

Question 4

Where does the Straight Sinus receive fluid from? Where does it drain to?

Answer 4

Receives From
- Great Cerebral Vein
- inferior Sagittal Sinus
Drains 
- Posterior end of the superior sagittal sinus

Question 5

Where does the Transverse Sinuses receive fluid from?

Answer 5

• Superior Sagittal Sinus

- Straight Sinus via the confluence of sinuses

Question 6

What sinus receives fluid from all other venous sinuses and empties into the internal jugular vein?

Answer 6

• Sigmoid Sinus

Question 7

What Veins drains the deep brain regions?

Answer 7

• The Great Cerebral Vein

Question 8

Where does the Internal Jugular Vein start? What does it end up as?

Answer 8

Starts
- Level of the Jugular Foramen
ends
- Joins subclavian to form the brachiocephalic vein

Question 9

Where do the Anterior and External Jugular Veins receive Drainage from?

Answer 9

• Superficial parts of the neck

- Posterior parts of the scalp

Question 10

Where does the Anterior and External Jugular veins drain into?

Answer 10

• The subclavian vein

Question 11

What are the superficial veins of the upper limbs?

Answer 11

• Cephalic Vein (lateral)

- Basilic (medial)

Question 12

Where do the Superficial Veins of the Upper limb arise from?

Answer 12

• The Dorsal Venous Plexus on the dorsum of the hand

Question 13

How are the Cephalic Vein and the Basilic Vein Connected?

Answer 13

• By the median cubital vein at the level of the cubital fossa

Question 14

Where do the Cephalic Vein and Basilic Vein Drain?

Answer 14

• The Axillary Vein

Question 15

Where do the Deep Veins of the Upper Limb drain into?

Answer 15

• The Axillary Vein

Question 16

What does the Axillary Vein continue as?

Answer 16

• the Subclavian Vein after the lateral border of rib I

Question 17

What are the 6 names of the Deep Veins of the Upper Limbs?

Answer 17

• Dorsal Palmar Veins
• Radial Vein
• Ulnar Vein
• Brachial Vein
• Axillary Vein
• Brachiocephalic

Question 18

What are the Deep Veins of the Lower Limb?

Answer 18

• Anterior Tibial Vein
• Posterior Tibial Vein (medial posterior)
• Fibular Vein (lateral posterior)

Question 19

Where do the Deep Veins empty into? What is the exception?

Answer 19

Empty
- The Femoral Vein
Exception
- the Gluteal Region Veins (into the internal iliac vein)

Question 20

What are the Superficial Veins of the Lower Limb?

Answer 20

• Small Saphenous Vein (lateral side)

- Great Saphenous Vein (medial side)

Question 21

Is the Small saphenous vein superficial or deep? What does it drain into?

Answer 21

• Superficial

- Drains into the popliteal vein

Question 22

Is the great saphenous vein superficial or deep? Where does it drain into?

Answer 22

• Superficial

- Drains into the Femoral Vein

Question 23

Where does the Femoral Vein drain into?

Answer 23

• The External iliac Veins

Question 24

Where does the venous blood that trains into the superior vena cava come from?

Answer 24

• The head and neck
• The upper limbs
• The thorax

Question 25

What Veins drain the venous blood from the head and neck?

Answer 25

- Internal Jugular | - External Jugular (minor)

Question 26

What Veins join to form the Brachiocephalic?

Answer 26

- The Subclavian | - The Internal Jugular

Question 27

The does the venous blood from the thoracic wall drain?

Answer 27

- The Anterior and Posterior Intercostal Veins

Question 28

Where do the Anterior Intercostal Veins get collected? where does it go after?

Answer 28

- Internal Thoracic Vein: goes into the Brachiocephalic Vein

Question 29

Where does the right side of the Posterior Intercostal Veins drain?

Answer 29

- The Azygos Vein

Question 30

What are the two parts of the left side of the posterior intercostal veins? Where do they drain?

Answer 30

- Lower Part: Into the Hemiazygos Vein | - Upper Part: Into the Accessory Hemiazygos Vein

Question 31

What do the Hemiazygos and Accessory Hemiazygos Veins have in common?

Answer 31

- They both cross the midline | - They both Drain into the Azygos Vein, Which in turn, drains into the SVC

Question 32

What is the Inferior Vena Cava formed by?

Answer 32

- Left and Right Common Iliac Veins at the LV vertebrae

Question 33

Where does the Inferior Vena Cava receive Venous Blood from?

Answer 33

- Lower Limbs - Pelvis - Abdomen (except the abdominal part of the GI tract, spleen, and pancreas)

Question 34

What drains directly into the Inferior Vena Cava?

Answer 34

- Right Gonadal | - Left and Right Renal Veins

Question 35

Where does the Left Gonadal Vein drain?

Answer 35

- The Left Renal Vein

Question 36

Is the Hepatic Portal Vein the same as the Hepatic Vein?

Answer 36

- No

Question 37

Where does the Hepatic Portal System receive venous blood from? Where does it drain?

Answer 37

- The GI tract: drains directly into the Inferior Vena Cava

Question 38

How does Venous blood from the liver get back to the heart?

Answer 38

- Drains into the Inferior Vena Cava via the Hepatic Veins | - Inferior Vena Cava then goes to the Right Atrium

Question 39

How is the Hepatic Portal Vein Formed?

Answer 39

- The Superior Mesenteric Vein joins the Splenic Vein

Question 40

What drains into the Superior Mesenteric Vein? (6)

Answer 40

- Colon - Intestines (except the upper part of the duodenum) - Cecum - Appendix - Ascending Colon - Transverse Colon

Question 41

Where does the Splenic Vein Recieve venous blood from?

Answer 41

- spleen - parts of the stomach - parts of the pancreas - inferior mesenteric vein

Question 42

Where does the Inferior Mesenteric Vein get venous blood from?

Answer 42

- left splenic flexure of the colon - descending colon - sigmoid colon - the rectum

Question 43

Where do the foregut organs drain venous blood?

Answer 43

- Directly into the hepatic portal vein