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Gross Anatomy
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Blood Supply
Fetal Circulation
Fast Facts
100
This is the largest artery in the body.
What is the aorta.
100
How are arteries named?
What are location and shape.
100
The anterior and posterior blood supplies the brain are united by small communicating arterial branches. The complete circle is called what?
What is Circle of Willis.
100
How many umbilical arteries are there?
What is two.
100
The aorta is about the size of what garden tool?
What is a garden hose.
200
The renal arteries serve what organ?
What are the kidneys.
200
Where is the abdominal aorta located?
Where is abdominopelvic cavity.
200
The posterior cerebral arteries supply the posterior part of what?
What is cerebrum.
200
The umbilical cord carries what gas to the placenta?
What is carbon dioxide.
300
Which artery serves the thigh?
What is the femoral artery.
300
This artery serves the brain stem.
What is the basilar artery.
300
Interior carotid arteries run though the neck and enter the cranium through which skull bone?
What is the temporal bone.
300
Which artery sends blood to the tissues of fetal bodies?
What is the aorta.
300
The arteries that supply the lungs are called the what?
What are the bronchial arteries.
400
The celiac trunk has how many branches?
What is three.
400
The iliac arteries branch from where?
What is the abdominal cavity.
400
The brain is supplied by which two pairs of arteries?
What are the internal carotid arteries and vertebral arteries.
400
Blood tends to enter the systemic circulation through what?
What is the ductus arteriosus.
400
What are the arteries that serve the esophagus called?
What are the esophageal arteries.
500
How many pairs of intercostal arteries are there?
What is ten.
500
These are the only branches of the ascending aorta.
What are the right and left coronary arteries.
500
Blood supply to the brain is crucial because...
Because brain cells will die without it.
500
After birth, the ductus arteriosus turns into what?
What is the ligamentum arteriosus.
500
What are the arteries that serve the diaphragm called?
What are the phrenic arteries.