Chapter 10 test Flashcards
carries blood towards the heart and away from the capillaries
veins
What carries blood away from the heart and towards the capillaries
arteries
what is general circulation
Heart to arteries to arterioles to capillaries to capillary bed to capillaries to ventricles to vein back to the heart
what is pulmonary circulation
Right atrium to right ventricle to pulmonary arteries to lungs to pulmonary veins
Pulmonary circulation begins with ________ blood and ends with ________ oxygenated
deoxygenated, oxygenated
What are the steps to systemic circulation?
Left atrium to left ventricle to aorta to body to superieor vena cava back to right atrium
Systemic circulation begins with _________ blood and ends with ________ blood
oxygenated, deoxygenated
Which circulation refers to the route of blood flow through the liver?
Hepatic portal circulation
Which organs from the abdominal region do not go directs into the inferior vena cava
spleen pancreas gall bladder stomach intestines
Once in the liver the blood goes through a second ________ _____ before returning to its normal route
Capillary bed
What two things are removed form the blood during its stop at the liver?
Glucose (stores it as glycogen)
Waste (remove and detoxify them)
How does the fetus secure food and oxygen?
the mother’s blood
Blood pressure is highest in the _______ and lowest in the _______
artener , veings
What are some dangers of blood pressure that is too high
rupture of blood vessels
What are some dangers of blood pressure that is too low?
Circulation and life cease
What are the four major factors that influence blood pressure?
blood volume
heart beat
streght of each contraction
thickness of blood
What is the normal average arterial blood pressure?
120/80
What is the systolic number
120
what is the diastolic number ?
80
What is happening during the systolic number
contracting
what is happening during the diastolic number?
relaxing
What carried blood from arterioles to venules ?
capillaries
What are arterioles ?
smaller arteries that bring the blood to the capillary bed
What are the venules
smaller veins that carries the bloodto capillary beds
what happens in the capillary beds?
the exchange of molecules
What is the largest artery in the body?
aorta
What are the largest veins in the body ?
vena cava
What are the major arteries of the head and neck?
Occipital
Left common cartoid
WHat are the major arteries of the thorax?
Brachiocephalic
What are the major arteries of the Abdomen?
celiac
renal
What are the major arteries of the upper extremities ?
axillary
What are the major arteries of the lower extremities ?
popliteal
anterior tibeal
What are the major veins of the head and neck?
internal jugular
What are the major veins of the thorax?
subclavlin
pulmonary
What are the major veins of the abdomen?
splenic
hepatic portal
What are the major veins of the upper extremity ?
basilic
what are the major veins of the lower extremityy
peroneal
