Vasculature

Question 1

At what vertebral level does the abdominal aorta end?

Answer 1

Approximately L4

Question 2

What does the abdominal sorts split into at the level of L4?

Answer 2

The right common iliac artery and the left common iliac artery

Question 3

What does the common iliac arteries split into?

Answer 3

Internal and external iliac arteries

Question 4

The initial branch of the femoral artery is called what?

Answer 4

The deep femoral artery

Question 6

What is the origin of the left external iliac artery and the left internal iliac artery?

Answer 6

The left common iliac artery

Question 7

What artery supplies blood to most of the structure within the true pelvis?

Answer 7

The internal iliac arteries

Question 8

What artery passes deep to the inguinal ligament?

Answer 8

The external iliac artery (left and right)

Question 9

The deep femoral artery (and it’s branches) supply which part of the body?

Answer 9

The hip and posterior compartment of the thigh

Question 10

The femoral artery supplies which compartment of the thigh?

Answer 10

Anterior compartment (some of its branches supply the medial compartment)

Question 11

The superior and inferior gluteal arteries are branches of what vessel?

Answer 11

The internal iliac artery

Question 12

What artery runs through the popliteal fossa?

Answer 12

The popliteal artery

Question 13

The popliteal artery is a continuation of what vessel?

Answer 13

The femoral artery

Question 14

At what point tides the femoral artery become the popliteal artery?

Answer 14

Once it passes through the adductor hiatus

Question 15

The popliteal artery branches into what two arteries?

Answer 15

The anterior and posterior tibial arteries

Question 16

The posterior tibial artery gives off what branch.

Answer 16

The fibular artery

Question 17

What is the dominant source of blood for the posterior compartment of the leg?

Answer 17

The posterior tibial artery

Question 18

The posterior tibial artery splits into which two arteries of the foot?

Answer 18

The medial planter artery and the lateral plantar artery

Question 19

The medial plantar artery and the lateral plantar artery join to form what?

Answer 19

The deep plantar arterial arch

Question 20

The anterior tibial artery becomes the dorsal is pedis artery when it passes what?

Answer 20

The ankle

Question 21

The anterior tibial artery becomes what vessel once it has passed the ankle?

Answer 21

The dorsalis pedis artery

Question 22

The veins of the foot form what network?

Answer 22

The dorsal venous network of the foot

Question 23

Venous blood returns from the foot superficially through what vessels?

Answer 23

The small and great saphenous veins

Question 24

The alternative to the superficial route of venous return is what?

Answer 24

A deep route that parallels the arteries

Question 25

The great saphenous vein lies…?

Answer 25

Medially, anterior to the medial malleolus

Question 26

The small saphenous vein lies…?

Answer 26

Laterally, posterior to the lateral malleolus

Question 27

The deep veins parallel the deep arteries and share a common name with them, true or false?

Answer 27

True

Question 28

How many deep veins parallel a deep artery in the blood?

Answer 28

Usually each deep artery is paralleled by two deep veins

Question 29

The external iliac artery passes inferiorly to the inguinal ligament and becomes what?

Answer 29

The femoral artery