lecture 10 Flashcards
1
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cardiovascular system
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transports blood throughout the body. Include heart, blood vessels (arteries, veins, and blood capillaries)
2
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lymphatic system
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transports lymph from the body tissues to the venous system
3
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arteries
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transport blood away from the heart
4
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large arteries
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- elastic
- aorta, brachiocephalic trunk, left subclavian artery, left common carotid artery, and pulmonary trunk
5
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medium arteries
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- muscular, distributing
- vertebral and external carotid artery
6
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resistance vessels
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- arterioles that are major determinants of systemic blood pressure
7
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terminal arteries
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do not anastomose with other arteries
8
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true terminal
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- supply the retina
9
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functional terminal arteries
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- supplies segments of brain, liver, kidney, spleen, and intestine
10
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peripheral arteries palpation
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- best heard that are close to the surface of the body
- carotid, brachial, radial, and femoral
11
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veins
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- capacitance vessels, 80% of blood in veins
- more numerous than arteries
- accompanying veins or venae comitantes form a network surrounding deep arteries
12
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arterial distribution to head
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aorta
- brachocephalic trunk, common carotid, and vertebral arteries
13
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arterial distribution to brain
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- cerebral arterial circle of willis. vertebral and internal carotid arteries form this circle
14
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arterial distribution to upper limbs
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- aorta to brachiocephalic trunk to subclavian artery to axillary artery
- only right side has brachiocephalic trunk
15
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arterial distribution to heart
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aorta to coronary arteries