Chapter 5 Flashcards
What type of blood flow demonstrates layers of fluid sliding over each other?
a. plug
b. helical
c. disturbed
d. laminar
d. laminar
Resistance to flow offered by a fluid in motion describes ______?
a. velocity
b. pressure
c. viscosity
d. volumetric flow rate
C. viscosity
What is the driving force behind blood flow?
a. heart
b. gravity
c. pressure
d. flow rate
c. pressure
A nonsteady flow with acceleration and deceleration over the cardiac cycle, is called _____?
a. plug flow
b. pulsatile flow
c. laminar flow
d. parabolic flow
b. pulsatile flow
_____ describes the volumetric flow rate as a constant.
a. bernoulli effect
b. continuity rule
c. poiseuille’s law
d. doppler equation
b. continuity rule
the difference between the emitted frequency and the echo frequency returning from a moving scatterer is called _____.
a. doppler effect
b. doppler shift
c. continuity rule
d. bernoulli effect
b. doppler shift
the volumetric flow rate is equal to _____.
a. pressure difference multiplied by the resistance
b. resistance of blood flow multiplied by the flow rate
c. average flow rate across the vessel multiplied by the cross-sectional area of the vessel
d. force per unit area
c. average flow rate across the vessel multiplied by the cross-sectional area of the vessel
resistance of the blood flow depends on the radius of the _____.
a. tube to the fourth power
b. tube squared
c. tube divided by the length of the tube
d. tube
a. tube to the fourth power
if pressure differences in a straight vessel increase, the flow rate _____.
a. increases
b. decreases
c. does not change
d. changes direction
a. increases
_____ are the tiniest vessels in the human body.
a. veins
b. venules
c. arterioles
d. capillaries
d. capillaries
which matter is considered a fluid?
a. gases
b. solids
c. liquids
d. gases and liquids
d. gases and liquids
turbulent flow is a form of _____ flow.
a. pulsatile
b. continuous
c. parabolic
d. nonlaminar
d. nonlaminar
the state of the downstream arterioles is reflected in the _____.
a. arterial peak systole
b. arterial diastolic flow
c. venous flow rate during expiration
d. venous flow rate during inspiration
b. arterial diastolic flow
the doppler equation relates the doppler shift to the _____.
a. pressure and resistance
b. flow speed and frequency
c. flow and speed pressure
d. flow and speed and resistance
b. flow and speed and frequency
the decreased pressure in the regions of high flow speed is called _____.
a. poiseuille’s law
b. bernoulli effect
c. continuity rule
d. volumetric flow rate
b. bernoulli effect
for a given flow, the greater the doppler angle, the _____.
a. less the doppler shift
b. higher the operating frequency
c. lower the speed of the scatterer
d. more accurate the doppler information
a. less the doppler shift
sound reflects totally at the wall-blood boundary once the doppler angle is less than _____ degrees.
a. 30
b. 40
c. 50
d. 60
a. 30
gases, nutrients and waste products are exchanged through the walls of _____.
a. arteries
b. venules
c. arterioles
d. capillaries
d. capillaries
what is required for flow to occur?
a. hydrostatic pressure
b. pressure difference
c. constant driving pressure
d. variable driving pressure
b. pressure difference
doppler shift does not depend on the _____.
a. flow speed
b. flow direction
c. Operating frequency
d. doppler angle
b. flow direction