Blood vessel structure
This layer of blood vessels is responsible for vasodilation and vasoconstriction.
What is the tunica media?
Gas exchange in the circulatory system only occurs here.
What are the capillaries?
Pressure against the capillary wall.
What is capillary hydrostatic pressure?
This kind of cell is abundant in lymph nodes
What are macrophages?
The layer of blood vessels composed of endothelial tissue.
What is the tunica intima?
The aorta is this kind of artery.
What are elastic arteries?
This pressure is maintained mostly by plasma proteins.
What is blood colloid osmotic pressure?
The vessel where lymph rejoins the circulatory system.
What is the subclavian vein?
Folds in the tunica intima that are present in veins but absent in arteries.
What are valves?
The respiratory pump is driven by changes in this.
What is pressure?
CHP-BCOP=
What is net filtration pressure?
The place where fluid enters the lymphatic system.
What are lymph capillaries?
This layer of blood vessels is missing from arterioles.
What is the tunica externa?
DAILY DOUBLE
What are:
1. Blood viscosity
2. Blood vessel length
3. Blood vessel diameter
This occurs at a NFP of -7mmHg.
What is reabsorption?
The place where efferent vessels exit the lymph node
What is the hilum?
Another word for discontinuous capillaries.
What are sinusoids?
These vessels provide blood to the walls of large veins and arteries.
What are vasa vasorum?
The cause of ascites.
What is lack of plasma protiens?
The region where you would find the axillary lymph node.
What is the armit?