Aorta
Arteries
Veins
Brain Circulation
Fetal Circulation
100
The largest artery of the body 
What is the aorta?
100
The intercostal arteries supply 
What are the muscles of the thorax wall?
100
Veins empty into the heart through
What is the superior and inferior vena cava?
100
The brain is supplied by two main pairs of arteries which are...
What are the internal carotid arteries and the vertebral arteries?
100
A fetus receives blood from the mother by 
What is the umbilical cord?
200
The aorta springs upward from the left ventricle of the heart as...
What is the ascending aorta?
200
The first branch of the abdominal aorta
What is the celiac trunk?
200
Veins draining head and arms empty into
What is the superior vena cava?
200
The internal carotid arteries enter the skull through
What is the temporal bone?
200
Carries carbon dioxide and debris-laden blood from the fetus to the placenta
What are the umbilical arteries?
300
The blood flows through the ascending aorta then arches to the left as...
What is the aortic arch?
300
The renal arteries serve
What are the kidneys?
300
The veins that drain the liver
What are the hepatic veins?
300
The vertebral arteries join to form the single
What is the basilar artery?
300
Carries blood rich in nutrients and oxygen to the fetus
What is the umbilical vein?
400
After passing through the diaphragm, it becomes the...
What is the abdominal aorta?
400
The only branches of the ascending aorta
What are the right and left coronary arteries?
400
The longest veins in the body
What are the great saphenous veins?
400
The anterior and posterior blood supplies of the brain are united by 
What are the communicating arterial branches?
400
Blood bypasses the immature liver through the 
What is the ductus venosus?
500
The four major branches of the aorta
What is the ascending aorta, aortic arch, thoracic aorta, and abdominal aorta?
500
The brachiocephalic trunk breaks into 
What is the right common carotid artery and the right subclavian artery?
500
The single vein that drains the thorax and enters the superior vena cava just before it joins the heart
What is the azygos veins?
500
The cerebral arterial circle that protects the brain by providing more than one route for blood to reach brain tissue 
What is the circle of Willis?
500
Some of the blood entering the right atrium is shunted directly in the left atrium through the 
What is the foramen ovale?
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