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Homeostatic Imbalances
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Superior Vena Cava
Inferior Vena Cava
100
Varicose veins are common in people who do this for long periods of time.
What is standing?
100
This vein carries blood rich with nutrients and and oxygen to the fetus.
What is the umbilical vein?
100
Most deep veins follow the same course or direction as these.
What is the course of the arteries?
100
Radial and ulnar veins are deep veins that drain this region of the body.
What is the forearm?
100
The inferior vena cava returns blood to the heart from these regions of the body.
What is all regions below the diaphragm?
200
The result of overworked valves that give way, causing veins to become twisted and dilated.
What are varicose veins?
200
Veins carry blood with this type of oxygenation.
What is low to very low oxygenation?
200
Most veins converge on this.
What is the superior and inferior vena cava?
200
This vein drains the posterior part of the head.
What is the vertebral vein?
200
While serving the same function this vein is much shorter than the inferior vena cava.
What is the superior vena cava?
300
A complication of varicose veins resulting in inflammation of a vein that results when a clot forms in a vessel with poor circulation.
What is thrombophlebitis?
300
In between the capillary beds and the veins are smaller tubes called this.
What are venules?
300
The vena cava enter the heart here.
What is the right atrium?
300
The radial and ulnar veins unite to form this vein.
What is the brachial vein?
300
These veins drain the liver.
What is the hepatic veins?
400
A clot detachment which is a consequence of thrombophlebitis.
What is a pulmonary embolism?
400
Veins have these to prevent the back flow of blood and to help pump blood back to the heart.
What are valves?
400
Veins deaining form the head and arms drain into this vein.
What is the superior vena cava?
400
This vein drains the dural sinuses of the brain.
What is the internal jugular vein?
400
The unions of external and internal iliac veins form this type of vein.
What is the common iliac veins?
500
Factors of this homeostatic imbalance include pooling of blood in the feet of legs and inefficient venous return.
What is varicose veins?
500
As blood flows superiorly toward the heart of a fetus, most of it bypasses the immature liver through this.
What is the ductus venosus?
500
Veins draining the lower body empty into this.
What is the inferior vena cava?
500
Blood flows into the superior vena cava in this direction.
What is distal-to-proximal direction?
500
This is the longest vein in the body.
What is the great saphenous vein?