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| pumps blood through the system |
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| vessel that is under very high pressure |
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capacitance, volume reservoir,
Most of the blood is in circulation |
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| smallest of the vessels, where gas exchange occurs |
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| o Vessels are thin walled and the fluid that drains from the tissues that will eventually be dumped into venous circulation |
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Made of a layer(s) of endothelial cells
Basal lamina
Internal elastic lamina is the bottom boundary for the lamina |
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Made of mostly smooth muscle
Elastic lamina |
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Made of Collagen and has an elastic lamina
Innervated by nerves |
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| adventita of the blood vessel |
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| the most abundant protein in the blood |
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| Blood vessels within blood vessels |
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large elastic arteries
medium muscular arteries
arteriole
metarterioles |
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| pressure needed to prefuse organs |
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a type of vessel that:
ARTERIAL SUPPLY TO ORGANS
THICKENED INTMA AND MEDIA
CONTAIN LYMPHATICS AND VASA VASORUM |
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the primary site of vascular resistance
the site for bp medication
controls the flow into capillaries |
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| controls blood flow through capillaries |
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| tunica media is thick is muscular arteries |
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| a structure that bypasses capillary beds |
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| arteriovenous anastomoses |
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BIFURCATION OF COMMON CAROTID ARTERIES
CHEMRECEPTORS
O2, CO2, Ph changes in blood |
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DILATATION OF THE COMMON CAROTID
MECHANORECEPTORS responds to CHANGES IN BLOOD PRESSURE |
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| the vessel that has the largest total surface area |
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the most abundant typeAbsence fenestrae
Tight junctions
Ex: Blood-Brain Barrier, Most Organs
of capillary |
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A type of capillary
Presence of thin wall fenestrae(diaphragm)
Ex: Kidney Glomerulous, Endocrine Organs |
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Large Diameter(30-40 microns)
Discontinuous Basal Lamina
Endothelial cells are separated by space
Association of phagocytic cells(Kuffer cells in liver)
Ex: Liver Sinusoids, Bone Marrow, Spleen, Placenta |
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| Types of capillary transport |
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1. Micropinocytosis (vesicles)
2. Diffusion through fenestrae
3. Diapedesis through
intercellular junctions
4. Diffusion across
membranes & cytoplasm
5. Diffusion & Diapedesis
through endothelial
discontinuities |
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| where is permeability the highest |
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| a disorder seen in people who stand for lomg periods of time; the lymphatic valves become further apart |
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| seen in truck drivers, blood clot can break off and form an embolis |
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