Download Chapter 21 Cardiovascular System Blood Vessel Test Review

Chapter 21 Cardiovascular System Blood Vessels Test Review
Multiple Choice
1. Blood vessel that distributes blood to organs?
2. Blood vessel that conveys blood from the tissues back to the heart.
3. Artery wall is responsible for vasoconstriction?
4. This layer of the artery is composed mainly of elastic and collagen fibers.
5. When an artery or arteriole is damaged, its smooth muscle contracts producing
6. Elastic arteries function as a
7. These vessels make up the largest blood reservoir.
8. This vessel plays a key role in regulating blood flow into capillaries.
9. What is NOT found in arteries but is found in veins?
10. Capillaries are also known as
11. The most important capillary exchange method?
12. These control the flow of blood through a capillary bed.
13. Continuous capillaries can be found in the following tissues.
14. The alternate route of blood flow to a body part through an anastomosis is called
15. The largest factor that promotes reabsorption of fluids, into blood, from the interstitial fluids is
16. The pressure driven movement of fluids and solutes from blood into interstitial fluid is called
17. This is the volume of blood that flows through any tissue in a given time period.
18. Blood flow depends on what two criteria.
19. What would NOT increase blood pressure.
20. What does NOT increase systemic vascular resistance?
21. This depends mostly on the ratio of RBC to plasma volume.
22. Circulation time
23. The cardiovascular center is located
24. What factor is most important in forcing blood flow through veins?
25. What would be the response of the body as a result of decreased frequency of action potentials arising
from the baroreceptors?
26. Which hormones would cause an increase in blood pressure?
27. Chemoreceptors in blood vessels measuring high levels of blood carbon dioxide would NOT cause
28. The myogenic response make smooth muscle
29. What do these chemicals have in common: potassium, hydrogen ions, lactic acid, nitric oxide and
adenosine?
30. Where can pulse not be felt?
31. This pressure provides information about the condition of the cardiovascular system such as
atherosclerosis and patent ductus arteriosus.
32. This type of shock is due to decreased blood volume.
33. What do the following have in common: superficial temporal artery, brachial artery and dorsal artery of
the foot?
34. What is a response to hypovolemic shock?
35. All the veins of the systemic circulation drain into the
36. Vessel that is a pulse point at the wrist?
Radial
37. Vessels supplies blood to the intestines?
Mesenteric
38. Vessel that supplies blood to the kidney?
Renal
39. Vessel drains blood from the lower leg?
Tibial
40. Vessel drains blood from the head and neck?
Jugular
41. Vessel drains blood from the lower body to the right atrium?
Inferior Vena Cava
42. After birth when the umbilical cord is cut what do the umbilical arteries fill with? Connective tissue
43. The lining of all vessels of the circulatory system is called ____ consisting of ____.
44. The most important tissue in the middle layer of arteries and arterioles are the
45. The two most important properties conferred on the arteries and arterioles by the middle layer of tissue
are the
46. The one anatomical feature of a capillary that allows it to function as it does is its
47. Blood flow through true capillaries is intermittent
48. What are the vessels that blood in capillaries enter into
49. Normally, which of the following would possess the MOST amount of blood?
50. Normally, which of the following would possess the LEAST amount of blood?
51. Blood normally does not back up from the veins into the capillaries even when standing because
52. In which vessel would you expect the blood flow to be the SLOWEST?
53. In which vessel would you expect the blood flow to be the FASTEST?
54. In which vessel would you expect the blood pressure to be the LOWEST?
55. In which vessel would you expect the blood pressure to be the HIGHEST
56. When the term BLOOD PRESSURE is used, what are the vessels that are normally being referred to?
57. Blood flows through the circulatory system primarily because
58. Stimulation of chemoreceptors would MOST LIKELY result in
59. Stimulation of baroreceptors would MOST LIKELY result in
60. Stimulation of Higher Brain Centers would MOST LIKELY result in
61. Which of the following would increase the arterial blood pressure?
62. Which of the following would lower the blood pressure?
63. Which of the following would produce a decrease in the blood pressure?
64. The increase of blood flow to a tissue in response to low blood oxygen to that tissue is called
65. A pulse is
66. In what vessel does a pulse first disappear?
67. The pulse pressure is
68. Systolic Pressure is
69. Which of the following is NOT true of the diastolic pressure compared to the systolic
70. 3:2:1 is the ratio of
71. You are walking down a dark path and hear a deep breathing sound approaching you from behind you.
The term that would best describe your heart rate would be?