Chapter 21 Flashcards
The force that blood exerts against the inner walls of a blood vessel.
blood pressure
The muscular- and elastic-walled tubes that carry blood from the heart through the body.
arteries
The branching vessels that carry blood to the heart from the capillaries.
veins
A blood vessel that carries blood from a capillary to a vein.
venule
A blood vessel that connects an arteriole to a venule.
capillary
Fibers that make the blood vessel wall elastic.
elastic arteries
Arteries that constrict or dilate to supply blood to the body.
muscular arteries
A small branch of an artery that transfers blood to the capillary network.
Arteriole
The blood vessels that carry blood from the heart to the lungs.
pulmonary circuit
Blood vessels that carry blood from the left ventricle of the heart through almost all parts of the body and then back to the heart.
systemic vessels
Blood vessels that carry blood from the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs.
pulmonary vessels
The outermost layer of a blood vessel wall.
tunica externa
