Chapter 21 - Peripheral Vascular System and Lymphatic System

Question 1

Artery wall characteristics

Answer 1

strong, tough, tense

Question 2

What do arteries contain that allow them to stretch and constrict?

Answer 2

elastic fibres and muscle fibres

Question 3

All arteries have a _______

Answer 3

pulse

Question 4

Where is the temporal artery palpated?

Answer 4

in front of the ear

Question 5

Where does the brachial artery bifurcate?

Answer 5

below the elbow

Question 6

What is the major artery in the leg?

Answer 6

femoral artery

Question 7

Ischemia

Answer 7

a deficient supply of oxygenated blood to a tissue

Question 8

Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)

Answer 8

affects noncoronary arteries and is causes by atherosclerosis in arteries supplying limbs

Question 9

What can cause PAD?

Answer 9

-atherosclerosis
-embolism
-hypercoagulable states
-arterial dissection

Question 10

Veins are a ____ pressure system unlike arteries

Answer 10

low

Question 11

How is blood kept moving through veins?

Answer 11

-contracting skeletal muscles
-pressure gradient caused by bleeding
-valves

Question 12

Capacitance Vessels

Answer 12

veins ability to strech

Question 13

Incompetent Vales

Answer 13

characteristic of dilated and varicose veins

Question 14

Where does the right lymphatic duct drain?

Answer 14

the right subclavian vein

Question 15

What does the right lymphatic duct drain?

Answer 15

right side of the head and neck, right arm, right side of thorax, right lung, pleura, right side of heart, right upper section of liver

Question 16

What does the rest of the thoracic duct drain?

Answer 16

the rest of the body