Quiz 4 Flashcards
A _____ is another part of the vascular system?
Vein
True or False/ A vein, unlike an artery, travels to the heart and carry blood?
True
_______ in the veins are mostly absent in the head and neck area, unlike the rest of the body.
Valves
Can you label the Artery?
AWESOME!!
Can you label the capillary?
I KNEW YOU COULD DO IT!!
Can you label the vein?
YAY!!!
After each smaller vein or VENULE drains the capillaries of the tissue the________ coalesce to_____?
The VENULES coalesce to become larger veins.
Superficial veins are found where?
They are found immediately deep to the skin?
Deeper veins usually accompany_____?
Deeper veins usually accompany larger arteries in a more protected location within the tissue.
A/An ______is the component of the vascular system that arises from the heart, carrying blood away with it
An Artery
Each artery starts as a large vessel and branches into smaller vessels, each one a smaller________
Artery or an ARTERIOLE
Each arteriole branches into even smaller vessels until it becomes_________
A network of capillaries
Each________ is smaller than an arteriole and can supply blood to a larger tissue area only because there are so many of them?
Capillary
Can you label the arteries, muscles, and bones?
SO PROUD OF YOU!!
Can you label all the veins in the profile picture?
AMAZING!!!
Ok, but can you label the vessels, valve and hilus?
I KNEW YOU COULD!!
Can you label the nodes and glands?
YES!!!
Can you label the tonsils, palate, uvula. Auditory tube?
SWELL!!!!
The lymph nodes associated with the head and neck can also be involved in the spread of infection such as dental or odontegenic infection from the teeth. True/False?
True
The spread of infection occurs along_______?
It occurs along the connecting lymphatic vessels of the involved nodes?
When a patient has a disease process such as cancer or infection active in a region, the regions’ ______ respond?
The regions’ lymph nodes respond?
The resultant increases in size and change in consistency of the lymphoid tissue is considered____?
It is considered lymphadenopathy
While lymph nodes usually assist in fighting disease, they can also aid in the spread of certain cancers, called_______?
Called CARCINOMAS, from epithelial tissue in the region they filter.
The spreads of cancer from the original or primary site of the neoplasm to another or secondary is considered______?
It is considered METASTISIS
Primary nodes drain the secondary site to_______?
They drain the secondary site to which the cancer will later metastasize.
When involved with cancer, the lymph nodes can become bony hard, and possibly fixed to surrounding tissue, structures, and organs, thus making them_____?
Thus making them nonmobile as the cancer grows and spreads.
The cancerous nodes are usually not_______?
They are usually not tender.
It is important to note that nodes involved with only an acute infection are ___________?
Firm, mobile, and tender
