CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMS SCRIPT QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Coronary Atherosclerosis - ✔✔Clogging of the coronary vessels with fatty buildup
✔✔Pulmonary Edema - ✔✔Blood vessels become swollen with blood, fluid leaks from
the circulation into the lung tissue, if untreated a person suffocates
✔✔Dyspnea - ✔✔Shortness of breath
✔✔Vascular System - ✔✔From heart to arteries, to aterioles, to capillary beds. These
drain into venules, which goes back to heart in veins, then through the venae cava into
heart
✔✔Arteries - ✔✔blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart
✔✔Arterioles - ✔✔the smallest arteries that connect with the capillaries
✔✔Capillary Beds - ✔✔a network of capillaries
✔✔Venules - ✔✔small veins
✔✔Veins - ✔✔blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart
✔✔How many coats or tunics are in the walls of blood vessels? - ✔✔3 coats
✔✔Why are the walls of arteries more thicker then veins? - ✔✔They are continuously
changing pressure
✔✔Are veins closer or farther apart from the hear? - ✔✔Farther
✔✔Valves - ✔✔Prevent backflow of blood (contained in veins)
✔✔varicose veins - ✔✔the pooling of blood in the feet and legs and inefficient venous
return resulting from inactivity or pressure on the veins, the overworked valves give way
✔✔Thombophlebitis - ✔✔Inflammation of a vein that results when a clot forms in a
vessel with poor circulation
✔✔Pulmonary Embolism - ✔✔When a blood clot detaches and ends up in , clot
(thrombus) or other material lodges in vessels of the lung
✔✔Aorta - ✔✔Largest artery in the body
, ✔✔Ascending Aorta - ✔✔the ascending part of the aorta as it emerges from the left
ventricle
✔✔Name the branches of the ascending aorta - ✔✔Right and Left coronary arteries
✔✔Left Internal Carotid - ✔✔Serves the brain
✔✔Left external carotid - ✔✔serves the skin and muscles of the head and neck
✔✔Celiac Trunk - ✔✔The first branch of the abdominal aorta, it is a single vessel with 3
branches
✔✔Left gastric artery - ✔✔supplies the stomach
✔✔Splenic Artery - ✔✔Supplies the spleen
✔✔Common Hepatic Artery - ✔✔Supplies the liver
✔✔Left and Right Renal Arteries - ✔✔Serves the kidneys
✔✔Gonadal Arteries - ✔✔Serves the ovaries or testes
✔✔popliteal artery - ✔✔artery at the knee
✔✔Posterior Tibial Artery - ✔✔At the ankle bone
✔✔Dorsalis Pedis Artery - ✔✔At the top of the foot
✔✔Superior Vena Cava - ✔✔Where the veins draining from the head and arms empty
into
✔✔Which side does the Venae Cava enter? - ✔✔On the right atrium
✔✔Inferior Vena Cava - ✔✔Where veins draining the lower body empty into (below the
diaphragm)
✔✔Azygos Vein - ✔✔Single vein that drains the thorax
✔✔Great Saphenous Veins - ✔✔The longest veins in the body (used for open heart
surgery)
✔✔External Jugular Vein - ✔✔receives blood from skin and muscles of head
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Coronary Atherosclerosis - ✔✔Clogging of the coronary vessels with fatty buildup
✔✔Pulmonary Edema - ✔✔Blood vessels become swollen with blood, fluid leaks from
the circulation into the lung tissue, if untreated a person suffocates
✔✔Dyspnea - ✔✔Shortness of breath
✔✔Vascular System - ✔✔From heart to arteries, to aterioles, to capillary beds. These
drain into venules, which goes back to heart in veins, then through the venae cava into
heart
✔✔Arteries - ✔✔blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart
✔✔Arterioles - ✔✔the smallest arteries that connect with the capillaries
✔✔Capillary Beds - ✔✔a network of capillaries
✔✔Venules - ✔✔small veins
✔✔Veins - ✔✔blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart
✔✔How many coats or tunics are in the walls of blood vessels? - ✔✔3 coats
✔✔Why are the walls of arteries more thicker then veins? - ✔✔They are continuously
changing pressure
✔✔Are veins closer or farther apart from the hear? - ✔✔Farther
✔✔Valves - ✔✔Prevent backflow of blood (contained in veins)
✔✔varicose veins - ✔✔the pooling of blood in the feet and legs and inefficient venous
return resulting from inactivity or pressure on the veins, the overworked valves give way
✔✔Thombophlebitis - ✔✔Inflammation of a vein that results when a clot forms in a
vessel with poor circulation
✔✔Pulmonary Embolism - ✔✔When a blood clot detaches and ends up in , clot
(thrombus) or other material lodges in vessels of the lung
✔✔Aorta - ✔✔Largest artery in the body
, ✔✔Ascending Aorta - ✔✔the ascending part of the aorta as it emerges from the left
ventricle
✔✔Name the branches of the ascending aorta - ✔✔Right and Left coronary arteries
✔✔Left Internal Carotid - ✔✔Serves the brain
✔✔Left external carotid - ✔✔serves the skin and muscles of the head and neck
✔✔Celiac Trunk - ✔✔The first branch of the abdominal aorta, it is a single vessel with 3
branches
✔✔Left gastric artery - ✔✔supplies the stomach
✔✔Splenic Artery - ✔✔Supplies the spleen
✔✔Common Hepatic Artery - ✔✔Supplies the liver
✔✔Left and Right Renal Arteries - ✔✔Serves the kidneys
✔✔Gonadal Arteries - ✔✔Serves the ovaries or testes
✔✔popliteal artery - ✔✔artery at the knee
✔✔Posterior Tibial Artery - ✔✔At the ankle bone
✔✔Dorsalis Pedis Artery - ✔✔At the top of the foot
✔✔Superior Vena Cava - ✔✔Where the veins draining from the head and arms empty
into
✔✔Which side does the Venae Cava enter? - ✔✔On the right atrium
✔✔Inferior Vena Cava - ✔✔Where veins draining the lower body empty into (below the
diaphragm)
✔✔Azygos Vein - ✔✔Single vein that drains the thorax
✔✔Great Saphenous Veins - ✔✔The longest veins in the body (used for open heart
surgery)
✔✔External Jugular Vein - ✔✔receives blood from skin and muscles of head
