BSC 2086 Broward - Exam 2 Textbook Questions and Answers with Verified Solutions | Latest Update

BSC 2086 Broward - Exam 2 Textbook Questions and Answers with
Verified Solutions | Latest Update


QUESTION
Blood often flows into a capillary bed from

Answer:
metarteriole

QUESTION
Plasma solutes enter the tissue fluid most easily from

Answer:
fenestrated capillaries

QUESTION
A blood vessel adapted to withstand a high pulse pressure would be expected to have

Answer:
an elastic tunica media

QUESTION
The substance most likely to cause a rapid drop in blood pressure is

Answer:
histamine

QUESTION
A person with a systolic blood pressure of 130 mm Hg and a diastolic pressure of 85 mm Hg
would have a mean arterial pressure of about

Answer:
100 mm Hg

QUESTION
the velocity of blood flow decreases if

Answer:
viscosity increases

QUESTION
blood flows faster in a venule than in a capillary because venules

Answer:
have larger diameters

, QUESTION
In a case where interstitial hydrostatic pressure is negative, the only force causing capillaries to
reabsorb fluid is

Answer:
colloid osmotic pressure of the blood

QUESTION
intestinal blood flows to the liver by way of

Answer:
the hepatic portal system

QUESTION
which vessel does the brain NOT receives blood from

Answer:
internal jugular artery/vein

QUESTION
The highest arterial blood pressure attained during ventricular contraction is called ____ pressure.
The lowest attained during ventricular relaxation is called _____ pressure

Answer:
systolic, diastolic

QUESTION
the capillaries of skeletal muscles are of the structural type called

Answer:
continuous capillaries

QUESTION
_____ shock occurs as a result of exposure to an antigen to which one is hypersensitive

Answer:
anaphylactic

QUESTION
the role of breathing in venous return is called the ______

Answer:
thoracic pump