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Heart, blood vessels, blood
What are the major components of the cardiovascular system?
Transport, thermoregulation, maintain fluid balance, protection
What are the major functions of the cardiovascular system?
Arteries
Do arteries or veins carry blood away from the heart?
Veins
Do arteries or veins carry blood toward the heart?
Oxygenated
Pulmonary veins carry what kind of blood?
Deoxygenated
Pulmonary arteries carry what kind of blood?
Oxygenated
Systemic arteries carry what kind of blood?
Deoxygenated
Systemic veins carry what kind of blood?
Left
Which wall of the heart is thicker?
Sends blood further away
Why is the left wall of the heart thicker?
Receiving
The two atria (R & L) are ________ chambers.
Discharging
The two ventricles (R & L) are _________ chambers.
Deoxygenated, Body
The right atrium receives _________ blood from the _________.
Oxygenated, Lungs
The left atrium receives _________ blood from the _________.
Epicardium, Myocardium, Endocardium
What are the 3 layers of the heart wall from outer to inner?
Visceral layer of serous pericardium
What is the outer epicardium layer composed of?
Cardiac muscle
What is the middle myocardium layer primarily composed of?
Fibrous skeleton of the heart
What is also contained in the myocardium layer?
Endothelial cells, Subendothelial layer, Subendocardial layer
What are the layers of the endocardium from superficial to deep?
Blood
The endothelial cell layer of the endocardium is the inner layer and in contact with what?
Connective tissue and smooth muscle cells
The subendothelial layer of the endocardium is the middle layer and contains what?
Intrinsic conduction system
The subendocardial layer of the endocardium is the deeper layer and is a connective tissue layer that contains what?
Atrioventricular
Which valves prevent backflow into the atria?
Semilunar
Which valves prevent backflow into the ventricles?
Tricuspid and bicuspid
What are the two atrioventricular valves?
Right
Which side of the heart are tricuspid valves found?
Left
Which side of the heart are bicuspic valves found?
Aortic and pulmonary
What are the two semilunar valves?
Left
Which side of the heart are aortic semilunar valves found?
Right
Which side of the heart are pulmonary semilunar valves found?
Myocardium
What is labeled 1?

Tricuspid valve (right atrioventricular)
What is labeled 2?

Bicuspid (mitral) valve (left atrioventricular)
What is labeled 3?

Aortic semilunar valve
What is labeled 4?

Pulmonary semilunar valve
What is labeled 5?

Sinoatrial node,
Atrioventricular node,
Atrioventricular bundle (Bundle of His),
R/L bundle branches,
Purkinje fibers
What are the steps of the cardiac conduction system?
Pacemaker of heart
What is the sinoatrial node considered?
Sinus rhythm
Heart rate is determined by the sinoatrial node through its _____________.
Internodal pathway or tracts
Impulse travels to the atrioventricular node via what?
Atria to contract
At the atrioventricular node, impulse is delayed here to allow for __________.
R and L bundle branches
Which part of the cardiac conduction system has branches of the atioventricular bundle?
Apex of heart
The R and L bundle branches course toward _____________ through interventricular septum.
Purkinje fibers (subendocardial branches)
What part of the cardiac conduction system finishes the pathway in interventricular septum, around apex of hear, and head back towards atria?
Arteriole
What is the smallest artery called?
Capillaries
What are the smallest of blood vessels?
Thin
Are capillaries thin or thick walled?
Blood and body tissues
Capillaries allow the exchange of materials between what?
Venule
What is the smallest vein called?
Blood vessels
What describes a grouping of arteries and veins?
Artery
Would this be an artery or vein?

Vein
Would this be an artery or vein?

Thick walls, small lumens, rounded
What is the general appearance of arteries?
Thin walls, large lumens, flattened
What is the general appearance of veins?
Intima, media, externa
What are the tunica layers of blood vessels from inner to outer?
Endothelium, Basal lamina, Subendothelial layer
What are the parts of the tunica intima from inner to outer?
Smooth muscle
The tunica media contains rings of what type of cells?
Vasoconstriction and vasodilation
What are the rings of smooth muscle cells in the tunica media responsible for?
Sheets or lamella or lamina of elastin
What does the tunica media also contain?
Vaso vasorum
What is the blood supply to the tunica externa in large blood vessels?
Nervi vascularis
What is the innervation to the tunica externa in large blood vessels?
Veins
Do arteries, veins, or both contain valves?
Tunica media (smooth muscle for contraction/moving blood)
Which layer of arteries is the thickest?
Tunica externa (responsible for keeping blood inside)
Which layer of veins is the thickest?
Vaso vasorum
What provides nourishment and waste removal for vessel walls?
Large arteries and veins
Where is the vaso vasorum most commonly found?
Vaso vasorum
What structure are the venule and arteriole part of in the adventitia of this large vessel?

Nervi vascularis
What is the nerve in the adventitia of this large vessel called?

Wavy
How does the endothelium appear in arteries?
Smooth
How does the endothelium appear in veins?
Smooth muscle cells and elastic fibers
What is the tunica media in arteries made of?
Smooth muscle cells and collagen fibers
What is the tunica media in veins made of?
Seperates intima from media in large arteries and some arterioles
Where is the internal elastic membrane found?
Separates media from externa in large arteries
Where is the external elastic membrane found?
Collagen and elastic fibers
What is the tunica externa in arteries made of?
Collagen and some smooth muscle fibers
What is the tunica externa in veins made of?
Artery (more open)
What is labeled 1?

Vein (more collapsed, lumen larger)
What is labeled 2?

Tunica intima
What is labeled 1?

Endothelium
What is labeled 2?

Subendothelial layer
What is labeled 3?

Internal elastic lamina
What is labeled 4?

Tunica media
What is labeled 5?

External elastic lamina
What is labeled 6?

Tunica externa
What is labeled 7?

Vaso vasorum
What is labeled 8?

Elastic, Muscular, Arterioles
What are the major types of arteries from largest to smallest?
Elastic
What type of arteries are the aorta and carotid?
Tunica Intima
What part of elastic arteries appears thick and endothelium is wavy?
Elastic fibers with smooth muscle
The tunica media of elastic arteries has a large amount of what?
Thin
Is the tunica externa of the elastic arteries thin or thick?
Vaso vasorum
What does the tunica externa of elastic arteries have present?
Elastic
What type of artery is shown?

Tunica externa
What layer of the elastic artery is labeled 1?

Tunica media
What layer of the elastic artery is labeled 2?

Tunica intima
What layer of the elastic artery is labeled 3?

Elastic
What type of artery is shown?

Tunica intima
What layer of the elastic artery is labeled 1?

Tunica media
What layer of the elastic artery is labeled 2?

Tunica externa
What layer of the elastic artery is labeled 3?

Vaso vasorum
What structure are the circled venules and arterioles part of?
