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Patterns and Circulation
Arteries
Capillaries
Veins and Disorders
Pressure and Functions of Vessels
100
The circulatory system is this type
What is closed
100
Carry blood ____ from heart
What is away
100
Have this number of cells of thickness
What is one
100
Carry this type of blood
What is deoxygenated
100
The force exerted by blood against the wall of a vessel
What is blood pressure
200
Blood flows in _______ direction
What is one
200
Pulmonary ones carry this type of blood
What is deoxygenated
200

Get their blood from this

What is arterioles

200
Their valves prevent this
What is blood from flowing backwards
200
Pressure exerted when ventricles relax
What is diastolic
300
Blood that travels between heart and lungs
What is pulmonary
300

This is the thickest muscular layer of arteries.

What is the tunica media?

300

Capillaries lack these 2 layers.

What are tunica externa & tunica media?
300

Compared to arteries are _______ pressure.

What is low?

300
Pressure exerted when ventricles contract
What is systolic
400
Blood that goes between interior and exterior of heart.
What is coronary
400
Transport blood under this type of pressure
What is high
400

This structure allows a capillary to bypass the capillary bed and drain directly into a venule.

What is arteriovenous anastomosis?

400

Venous valves open _________ to muscle contraction.

What is superior?

400

Blood velocity is lowest here.

What are capillaries?

500

The five types of vessels are...

What is arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venules, and veins

500
Branches that lead to capillaries
What is arterioles
500

These are the 3 types of capillaries.

Continuous, fenestrated, and sinusoid.

500

The only veins to carry oxygenated blood.

What are pulmonary veins?

500

These are mechanisms / routes that substances can move in or out of capillaries.

What are fenestrations, membrane channels, gap junctions, diffusion across membrane?