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Arteries
Answers:-Carry oxygenated and nutrient rich blood away from heart to capillaries
-High pressure system
-Stretch with systole, relax with diastole
-Each heart beat creates a pressure wave PULSE
Feel a pulse only at sites where artery close to skin and over a bone
Veins


Answers:-Carry deoxygenated blood, nutrient depleted blood from tissues back to
heart
-Low pressure system
-No pump to generate blood flow, veins have valves for unidirectional
-Contracting skeletal muscle, respiratory pressure gradient and intraluminal valves
-body has more veins than arteries, lies closer to skin surface
Arterial pulses locations


Answers:temporal
carotid
brachial
radial
ulnar
femoral
popliteal
posterior tibial

, dorsalis pedis
Arterial pulse 0 grading


Answers:absent; or unable to palpate
arterial pulse 1+ grading


Answers:diminished; weak/thready
arterial pulse 2+ grading


Answers:brisk, expected, normal
arterial pulse 3+ grading


Answers:increased
arterial pulse 4+ grading


Answers:bounding (hyperkinetic states)
Anatomy: lymphatics


Answers:Completely separate vessel system
-drains excess fluid and plasma proteins from bodily tissues and return to venous
system
-more fluid leaves capillaries than veins can absorb
-faulty lymphatic drainage leads to build up of fluid in interstitial spaces: edema
-Drain into two main trunks that empty into subclavian veins
--right lymphatic duct and thoracic duct
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