hemodynamics
The chamber of the heart that oxygenated blood exits from as it passes through the aortic valve and into the aorta
What is the left ventricle?
The location where the subclavian artery becomes the axillary artery
What is the lateral margin of the first rib?
What vessel provides 25% of the total blood flow to the posterior aspect of the brain?
What is the vertebral artery?
What vessel travels along the side of the psoas major muscle?
What is the EIA?
What type of atherosclerosis may be characterized as causing acoustical shadowing?
What is chronic atherosclerosis?
The term that refers to the rotational blood flow found within turbulence that is most commonly noted just distal to a stenosis
What are eddy currents?
What is the radial artery?
When performing a temporal tap, what vessel would you tap on?
What is the superficial temporal artery?
The aorta bifurcates into what two vessels?
What type of lesion is characterized as involving a long segment of a vessel but causing a < 50% diameter reduction?
What is a diffuse lesion?
The amount of blood ejected out of the heart with each heart beat
What is the stroke volume?
What artery terminates into the superficial palmar arch?
What is the ulnar artery?
What is the second branch off of the aortic arch?
What is the left CCA?
What vessel provides blood flow to the lateral aspect of the calf?
What is the peroneal artery?
A vessel that has a >/= 50% diameter reduction would have a peak velocity ratio of what?
What is >/= 2?
What happens to blood flow velocity as the diameter of a vessel becomes smaller?
What is increases?
At what anatomical location does the brachial artery typically bifurcate into the radial and the ulnar artery?
What is the antecubital fossa?
The brachiocephalic artery bifurcates into what two vessels?
What are the right CCA and the right subclavian arteries?
What vessel passes along the side of the interosseous membrane?
What is the anterior tibial artery?
The term homogeneous may be used to refer to what type of atherosclerotic disease?
What is acute atherosclerosis?
The term that refers to how much blood is flowing past a particular area at a specific moment in time
What is flow volume?
The proper common digital arteries run alongside which digits?
What are the 2nd through the 5th digits?
The ophthalmic artery is the first branch off of which vessel?
What is the ICA?
What is the area behind the knee referred to as?
What is the popliteal fossa?
What term refers to a variety of different echoes throughout an atherosclerotic lesion?
What is heterogeneous?