Heart/Blood Vessels
This node is the pacemaker of the heart.
What is the sinoatrial (SA) node?
These two ducts drain all of the lymph of the body back to the blood.
What are the thoracic and right lymphatic ducts?
The outermost layer of the lungs.
What is the parietal pleura?
This structure curves around the head of the pancreas.
What is the duodenom?
This term describes where the kidneys sit in the abdominal cavity.
What is retroperitoneal?
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The term for the anatomical region found between the lungs extending from the sternum to the vertebral column and from the first rib to the diaphragm.
What is the mediastinum?
Lymph flows from capillaries - vessels - nodes - to ...
Trunks
This structure is found on the left lung and gives it a unique shape.
What is the cardiac notch?
This structure attaches the liver to the anterior abdominal wall and diaphragm.
What is the falciform ligament?
The notch on the inner, concave side of each kidney through which the ureters, renal blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, and nerves enter and exit.
What is the hilus?
The pouch-like structures that increase the total filling capacity of the atrium
This large lymphatic structure is found in the abdominal cavity and collects lymph from the right and left lumbar trunks, and the intestinal trunk.
What is the cisterna chyli?
This structure starts at the internal nares and extends to the cricoid cartilage.
What is the pharynx?
This structure regulates the flow of material into the colon.
What is the ileocecal sphincter?
The 3 layers around each kidney, from deep to superficial.
What is the renal capsule, adipose capsule, and renal fascia?
The right common carotid artery branches directly off of this.
What is the brachiocephalic trunk/artery?
These structures pass lymph toward another lymph node or group of nodes.
What are lymph vessels?
These structures function to open and close the glottis.
What are the corniculate and arytenoid cartilages?
These two structures bind the small and large intestines to the posterior abdominal wall.
What is the mesentery and mesocolon?
- Which is which!
This region of the kidney is deep and consists of 8-18 renal pyramids.
What is the renal medulla?
This structure is used to control the flow of blood through a capillary bed.
What is a precapillary sphincter?
The most proximal group of each chain of lymph nodes exiting vessels unite to form this structure(s).
What are lymph trunks?
This structure prevents food or water from entering the larynx.
What is the epiglottis?
In most people, this pancreatic duct joins a bile duct.
What is the Wirsung duct?
This is the part of the kidney which contains a renal pyramid, it's overlying area of renal cortex, and 1/2 of each adjacent renal column.
What is the renal lobe?