The small, middle, and great cardiac vein drain into what structure? - Answers The Coronary Sinus
Branches of the celiac trunk - Answers Left Gastric Artery
Common Hepatic Artery
Splenic Artery
What is the extra layer of tissue that arteries have and veins do not? - Answers Elastic tissue
Which 3 vessels drain into the right atrium? - Answers Superior Vena Cava
Inferior Vena Cava
Coronary Sinus
Which vein drains the face and scalp? - Answers External Jugular Vein
What is the main pacemaker of the heart? - Answers Sinoatrial Node
What is the backup pacemaker of the heart? - Answers Atrioventricular Node
Systemic Circuit - Answers Delivers oxygenated blood to organs and tissues.
Blood leaves from the left side of the heart and returns to the right side. Left ---> Right.
Coronary Circuit - Answers Delivers oxygenated blood to the heart for metabolic needs.
Pulmonary Circuit - Answers Delivers deoxygenated blood to the lungs. Blood leaves the right side of the
heart, goes to lungs, and returns to the left side of the heart. Right ---> Lungs ---> Left
Arteries branch into what? - Answers Capillaries/Capillary Beds
Where does gas, nutrient, and waste exchange take place? - Answers Capillary Beds
Blood pumps away from the heart through what? - Answers Arteries
Blood is drained from the capillaries via what? - Answers Veins
Largest artery in the body - Answers Aorta
2 Largest vein in the body - Answers Superior and Inferior Vena Cava
What is the largest vein of the lower limb and what does it drain? - Answers Great Saphenous Vein;
Medial leg and thigh
3 branches off the aortic arch - Answers 1. Brachiocephalic Artery
, 2. Left Common Carotid Artery
3. Left Subclavian Artery
What supplies the upper limbs and what does it turn into? - Answers Left and Right Subclavian Artery;
Axillary Artery
What supplies the brain? - Answers Internal Carotid Artery and Basilar Artery
What does the Axillary Artery turn into? - Answers Brachial Artery
What supplies the face and scalp? - Answers External Carotid Artery
The Basilar artery is derived from what? - Answers Branches off the Subclavian Artery called Vertebral
Arteries
Anterior and posterior communicating arteries make what structure? - Answers Circle of Willis
What is the first branch off of the Abdominal Aorta? - Answers Celiac Trunk
What vessels provide alternate routes of circulation to the brain if a supplying artery becomes blocked? -
Answers Anterior and Posterior Communicating Arteries
What serves the kidneys and what drains them? - Answers Renal Arteries; Renal Veins
What supplies the small intestines and much of the large intestines and what drains it? - Answers
Superior Mesenteric Artery; Superior Mesenteric Vein
What supplies the remainder of the large intestines and what drains it? - Answers Inferior Mesenteric
Artery; Inferior Mesenteric Vein
Branches of the Abdominal Aorta - Answers 1. Celiac Trunk
2. Renal Arteries
3. Superior Mesenteric Artery
4. Inferior Mesenteric Artery
What supplies structures of the Pelvis? - Answers Internal Iliac Artery
What carries blood towards the heart? - Answers Veins
Superior Vena Cava drains what? - Answers Structures superior the diaphragm
What drains structures inferior to the diaphragm? - Answers Inferior Vena Cava
What drains the brain? - Answers Internal Jugular Vein