Vessels and Circulation

Question 1

What veins drain the head, neck, and upper limbs?

Answer 1

Left and right brachiocephalic veins

Question 2

What do the brachiocephalic veins merge into?

Answer 2

Superior vena cava

Question 3

Where does the superior vena cava drain into?

Answer 3

Right atrium

Question 4

What vein has the largest diameter?

Answer 4

Inferior vena cava

Question 5

What merges to form the inferior vena cava?

Answer 5

The veins inferior to the diaphragm

Question 6

What does the inferior vena cava do?

Answer 6

Carrying venous blood toward the heart from the lowr limbs, pelvis, perineum, and abdominal structures

Question 7

Where does the inferior vena cava drain?

Answer 7

Right atrium

Question 8

Where does the external jugular vein drain?

Answer 8

Subclavian vein

Question 9

Where do the veins in the head and neck merge into?

Answer 9

External jugular vein

Question 10

Where do the vertebral veins travel through?

Answer 10

Transverse foramina of the cervical vertebrae

Question 11

Where do the vertebral veins drain?

Answer 11

Brachiocephalic veins

Question 12

Where does the venous blood of the cranium drain?

Answer 12

Dural venous sinuses

Question 13

What drains the skin in the region around the nose?

Answer 13

Superior and inferior ophthalmic veins

Question 14

What single vein is on the posterior body wall just right to the vertebral column?

Answer 14

Azygos vein

Question 15

Where does the azygos vein merge?

Answer 15

Superior vena cava

Question 16

What vein can be used for collateral circulation if the vena cava?

Answer 16

Azygos

Question 17

What veins drain into the azygos veins?

Answer 17

Bronchial veins

Question 18

Where do the esophageal veins drain?

Answer 18

Azygos vein or the left gastric vein

Question 19

What veins drain into the diaphragm that merge into the inferior vena cava?

Answer 19

Superior and inferior phrenic veins

Question 20

What is a portal system?

Answer 20

Veins that drain one group if capillaries deliver blood to another group of capillaries

Question 21

What vein receives oxygen poor but nutrient rich blood from the gastrointestinal organs?

Answer 21

Hepatic portal vein

Question 22

What organs all send blood through the liver?

Answer 22

Intenstines, pancreas, spleen, stomach, and gallbladder

Question 23

What veins take the detoxified blood from the liver to the inferior vena cava?

Answer 23

Hepatic veins

Question 24

What veins posterior veins drain into the inferior vena cava?

Answer 24

Suprarenal veins, renal veins, and gonadal veins

Question 25

Where do the organs and structures of the pelvis and perineum drain?

Answer 25

Internal iliac veins that merge with the external iliac veins into the common iliac veins