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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT --- SP BLOOD VESSEL
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Question 1: Venous sinus
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vein within endothelium wall that has no smooth muscle to alter its diameter Question 2: Three main types of sensory receptors that provide input to the cardiovascular center are
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- proprioceptors
- baroreceptors
- chemoreceptors
Question 3: Obstruction of an end artery leads to
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necrosis of that segment
Question 4: blood viscosity
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thickness of blood, stickiness
Question 5: Anastamoses is a
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Union of branches of two or more ARTERIES that supply the same body region
Question 6: Because the tunica media of muscular arteries is thick
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it is capable of greater vasoconstriction + vasodilation
Question 7: filtration
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when pressure that push fluid out of capillary exceeds the pull of fluid into capillary
Question 8: Transcytosis
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When substances are enclosed in pinocytic vessicles that first enter via endocytosis, then move across the cell and exit on other side via exocytosis
Question 9: resistance is frequently referred to as
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peripheral resistance
Question 10: holes of fenestrated capillaries allow
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greater exchange of materials
Question 11: A contraction has what affect on the lumen
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narrowing of lumen and squeezing the arterial wall
Question 12: necrosis
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death
Question 13: Two mechanisms that assist venous return
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- skeletal muscle pump
- respiratory pump
Question 14: hypercapnia
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excess CO2
Question 15: As venules grow larger
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their walls thicken and lose the ability to exchange with interstitial fluid
Question 16: Blood pressure is generated by the contraction of
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ventricles
Question 17: capillary blood pressure
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pressure that pushes out of the capillary
Question 18: Venous sinus quoted in notes
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flattened veins with thin walls (only endothelium)
Question 19: Why do veins look flat
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very thin walls
Question 20: Nerve impulses descend from ____ in order to
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cerebral cortex, limbic system, and hypothalamus
affect the cardiovascular center Question 21: What cannot pass through capillary walls of continuous and fenestrated
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plasma proteins, red blood cells
Question 22: Systemic vascular resistance is also known as
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total peripheral resistance
Question 23: Vascular resistance
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opposition of blood flow due to friction between blood and the wall
Question 24: Capillaries lack the layers
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tunica media and tunica externa
Question 25: Cardiovascular center controls
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neural and hormonal negative feedback systems that regulate blood flow to specific tissues
Question 26: The sounds heard while taking blood pressure is called
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Korotkoff sounds
Question 27: atherosclerosis
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condition that greatly increases pulse pressure