Vascular System Flashcards
Arteries
Deliver blood to tissues, carry blood away from heart
Elastic
Largest
Secondary pump
Muscular
Lots of smooth muscle
Regulate blood pressure
Arterioles
No middle layer
Outers layers
CT
Middle layers
Smooth muscles
Inner layers
ET, simple squamous
Veins
Receive blood from tissues
Venules
Small veins, no smooth muscle
Capillaries
Delivery and receiving
Only inner layer
Continuous capillaries
Solid wall
Fenestrated
Holes/channels
Membrane lines,no leaking
Sinusoid capillaries
In liver and spleen
Have gaps in between adjacent and epithelial cells
Difference between arteries and veins
Arteries have thicker muscle layer than veins
Tunica externa or adventitia
CT Layer
Tunica media
Middle
Thicken in arteries
Tunica intima
Intima(close to blood)
Interna
Endothelium
Valves in veins
Capillaries layers have
Endothelium only
Capillary beds
Arterioles->Metarteriole->Throughfare channel
Guarantees blood can flow from arterioles venule
Precapillary sphincters
Maximizes blood flow
Collaterals
2 blood vessels running parallel to each other (basilar artery) delivering blood to same area
Anastamosis
Arteries fusing together
Veins carry..
Most of our blood
Common carotid
Blood supple to head
Internal carotid
Supplies brain
Anastomoses w basilar via circle of Willis
External carotid
Delivers blood to superficial regions
Supplies most of the head and neck
Facial, occipital, and superficial temporal
Vertebral to
Basilar
Anterior and posterior inferior cerebellars and superior cerebellars
Branch off basilar artery
What are the parts of the circle of Willis and it’s branches?
Posterior, middle, anterior cerebral arteries
Subclavian artery
Upper extremity (arm)
Thyrocervical trunk
Neck