Chapter 21 Review Flashcards
What carries blood away from the heart?
Arteries.
List & Describe 3 Tunics of the Arteries?
1: Tunica Interna, Forms the inner lining of the vessel, There is 2 components to this layer:
Includes A basement membrane & the innermost layer that is in contact with blood the Endothelium lining.
2: Media, Has the most variation among Arteries, containing smooth muscle & Elastic fibres.
3: Externa, Helps anchor vessels to surrounding tissues. They have nerves and tiny vessels called “ Vasa Vasorum” that supply the Walls of the arteries itself.
What is the definition of “Anastomosis”?
The Union of branches of 2 or more Arteries supplying the same body region is called an “Anastomosis”.
What is the definition of an “Arteries”?
The wall of Arteries are the layers of typical blood vessels but have a thick muscular to elastic tunica media.
What is the definition of “Arterioles”?
These are vessels that regulate the flow of blood into the capillary networks of the body tissues.
They are also know as the small vessels of the body.
What is the definition of “Capillaries”?
The smallest vessels of the body.
They have no Tunica Media & Externa so Substances can pass through to the interstitial fluid.
The primary function of capillaries is to exchange substances to tissues in the body.
They are the most frequent in the parts of the body with higher Metabolic activity.
What is the definition of “Veins”?
Returns blood to the heart, Facilitated by valves in the limbs.
What is the definition of “Venules”?
These are used for draining the capillary blood & begin the flow of blood back to the heart.
How do Arterioles & Capillaries Regulate Blood flow?
They do so by using resistance.
muscle rings called sphincters.
List & Describe 3 Tunics of the Vein?
Externa: Thickest of the 3 layers.
Media: much thinner than in Arteries, no External elstic lamina.
Interna: Endothelium & Basement membrane, no internal elastic lamina, contains valves.
What do Weak Venous Veins cause?
This can cause Varicose veins and will lead to a build up of blood in the area / veins.
Its appearance is twisted full veins that are discoloured.
The Venous system act as a Blood ______?
They act as a blood reservoir.
What is “Starlings Law” of capillaries?
Represents the movement of substances across the capillaries membrane into and out of the interstitial fluid.
Resistance of Blood depends on what?
Size of the Lumen
Blood Velocity
Total Blood vessel length
What is Neural Regulation of blood pressure?
This is based off of to types of Negative feedback loops called “Baroreceptor reflexes & Chemoreceptor reflexes”.
What is the main Region of Nervous system regulation of heart and blood vessels?
The main region for this is the (CV) Cardiovascular Centre in the centre of the medulla Oblongata.
What do Baroreceptor reflexes do for the (CV)?
These are used for sending Impulses to the CV to help regulate blood pressure.
What is the (CV) used for?
It is used for regulating the Heart rate & Stroke Volume.
The CV also regulates Hormonal & local Negative feedback systems that regulate blood pressure and blood speed to specific tissues.
Where are Baroreceptor reflexes located?
These can be found in the Aorta, Internal Carotid Arteries and other large arteries that supply the neck & chest?
What are the 2 most important Baroreceptor reflexes?
They are the Carotid Sinus & Aortic Reflex.
What is Carotid Sinus Reflex?
This is when Baroreceptors in the wall of the carotid Sinuses initiate the “Carotid Sinus Reflex” to help regulate blood Pressure to the Brain.
What are Carotid Sinuses?
These are small Widenings of the right & left internal carotid arteries just above the point where they brach from the common carotid arteries.
Blood pressure stretches the wall of the Carotid Sinus and Stimulates Baroreceptors.
Nerve impulses to the CV.
What happens when pressure is placed on the wall of the Carotid Sinuses?
Baroreceptors are stimulated and nerve impulses are sent to the CV in the Medulla Oblongata.
Where does the “Aortic Reflexe” occur?
This comes from the Ascending Aorta & the Arch of the Aorta?
What happens to the Baroreceptor reflexes when Blood Pressure falls?
When Blood pressure falls the Baroreceptors are stretched less so they send nerve impulses to the CV slower.
What is the response of the Baroreceptor reflexes when the blood pressure drops?
In response to this the CV centre decrease Parasympathetic stimulation of the heart.
What are Chemoreceptors Reflexes?
These are Sensory Receptors that monitor Chemical composition of the blood.
Where are Chemoreceptors located?
They can be found close to the Baroreceptors of the Carotid Sinus & the Arch of the Aorta in small structures called Carotid Bodies and Aortic Bodies.
What do Chemoreceptors detect for?
They detect for things such as Hypoxia, Acidosis & Hypercapnia.
And overall changes in blood contents of o2, co2, H+.
Besides Detecting for changes in blood and changing Dilation of Blood vessels what else does the Chemoreceptors do?
It also increases Breathing rates.
What do the Chemoreceptors do in response to low or high chemicals in the blood?
In response the CV centre increases Sympathetic Stimulation to the Arterioles and veins producing vasoconstriction and an increase in blood pressure.
What is the Diagram for CV centre negative feedback loop look like?
First the Stimulus -> … look through book rn
Even if you have normal stroke volume and Cardiac output can you get shock from drop in blood pressure?
yes, if a decrease in Systemic Vascular resistance.
What can cause A Drop in Systemic Vascular Resistance?
Things such as Anaphylactic Shock, Septic Shock & Neurogenic Shock.
What is Neurogenic shock?
Vasodilation may occur after acute trauma to the head the causes malfunction of the CV centre in the brain.
What is Septic Shock
It is caused by bacterial toxins that produce Vasodilation.
What are factors affecting blood pressure?
Cardiac output. Peripheral vascular resistance. Volume of circulating blood. Viscosity of blood. Elasticity of vessels walls.
Output for the cardiovascular center flows along __________________ and ________________ nerves
They travel along “Cardiac accelerator nerves & Vagus (X) nerves” to the heart.
What is Pulse?
The rhythmic dilation of an artery that results from beating of the heart.
What is Systolic Blood pressure?
The pressure your heart emits while beating.
What is Diastolic blood pressure?
The pressure in your arteries between heart beats.
What are the 3 main divisions of the Aorta?
Ascending Aorta, Arch of the Aorta, Descending Aorta.
What are some Congenital Heart Defects?
This includes:
Arrhythmia, Congenital Heart Failure.
What does Hemodynamics mean?
This refers to the force involved in circulating blood throughout the body.
Define hypertension (primary and secondary) and give the range of low to high stage 2 hypertension.
This is a condition in which the clients blood pressure is raised chronically.
Stage 1: 140-159 / 90-99
Stage 2: 160-179 / 100-109