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Our vessels lose elasticity as we age, as happens in arteriosclerosis. Which vessel layer is affected
What is the tunica media?
The alternating expansion and recoil of an artery that occurs with each beat of the left ventricle creates a pressure wave known as a ________.
What is pulse?
This fetal shunt bypasses the lungs by directly connecting the right atrium and the left atrium
What is the foramen ovale?
Sustained elevated arterial blood pressure above 140/90 mm Hg is a condition known as
What is hypertension?
This hormone promotes sodium ion (and water) reabsorption by the kidney in order to increase blood pressure and blood volume
What is Aldosterone?
The umbilical vein carries
What is oxygen and nutrients from the placenta to the fetus?
These drain capillary beds
What are venules?
This organ receives blood from the hepatic portal vein
What is the Liver?
Large veins have ________ to prevent the backflow of blood.
What are valves?
Organs served by the renal arteries and veins
What are the kidneys?
Major pulse points of the body
What are superficial temporal, facial, common carotid, brachial, radial, femoral, popliteal, posterior tibial and dorsalis pedis?
Coronary artery disease results from
What is the accumulation of fatty, calcified deposits within blood vessels?
The path of blood flow within the systemic vascular system is
What is arteries, arterioles, capillary beds, venules, veins?
The flow of blood through a capillary bed
What is microcirculation?
The vessel that carries oxygenated and nutrient-rich blood to the fetus is the ________.
What is the umbilical vein?
The flaplike opening in the interatrial septum of the fetus through which blood is shunted directly from the right atrium to the left atrium is the ________.
What is the foramen ovale?
The correct sequence of layers of a typical blood vessel, from superficial to deep, are
What is tunica externa, tunica media, tunica intima?
The friction blood encounters as it flows through the vessels is called
What is peripheral resistance?
The largest artery in the body