Module 7: Vocabulary Review

Question 1

Vasa vasorum

Answer 1

Network of small blood vessels over the artery surface

Question 2

Linear guide

Answer 2

a line drawn or visualized on the surface of the skin to represent the approximate location of a deeper lying structure

Question 3

Anatomical guide

Answer 3

method of locating a structure by reference to an adjacent known or prominent structure

Question 4

Anatomical limit

Answer 4

the point of origin and the point of termination of a structure in relation to adjacent structures

Question 5

Femoral triangle

Answer 5

The inguinal ligament serves as the base for the triangle that two sides consist of the medial border of the sartorius and the lateral border of the adductor longus muscle / subcutaneous tissues cover the triangle and the roof consists of a dense sheet of fascia lata which attaches to the inguinal ligament and encircles the thigh

Question 6

Adductor (Hunter’s) Canal

Answer 6

The canal contains the subsartorial artery (superficial femoral artery), subsartorial vein (superficial femoral vein), and branches of the femoral nerve