Flashcards in Part 1 Deck (61)
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Delivering adequate oxygen & nutrients to the systemic tissues and removing carbon dioxide and other waste products from the systemic tissues is the main function of?
Systemic Circulation
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Systemic circulation serves as a conduit for transport of hormones and other substances and it allows these substances to?
Potentially act at a distant site from their production
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What are designed to carry blood under high pressure out to the tissue beds?
Systemic Arteries
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What act as control valves to regulate local flow?
Arterioles and Pre-capillary Sphincters
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Capillaries (one cell layer thick) exchange between?
Tissue (cells) and blood
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Venules collect blood from?
Capillaries
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What returns blood to the heart/dynamic storage?
Systemic Veins
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Blood flow is proportional to?
Metabolic Demand
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Cardiac output is controlled by?
Local Tissue Flow
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What is independent of local flow or cardiac output?
Arterial Pressure Control
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What are the components of vessels?
1. Endothelium ( 1 layer in all vessels)
2. Elastic Tissue
3. Smooth Muscle
4. Fibrous Tissue
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The relative composition of the aorta is?
1 >3 >2
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The relative composition of a typical artery is?
2 > 1 > 3
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The relative composition of a vein is?
1=2=3
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The relative composition of a capillary is?
Only endothelium
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What is the volume of blood that passes a certain point per unit of time (e.g.. ml/min) ?
Flow (F)
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At a given flow, the velocity is inversely proportional to the?
Total cross sectional area
F = velocity x cross sectional area
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Flow is directly proportional to the change in pressure and inversely proportional to?
Resistance (R)
F = change in pressure/R
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What is the driving force of blood?
Pressure Gradient
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Pressure gradient is the difference in?
Pressure between two points
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Pressure gradient is proportional to?
Flow
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At a given flow, the greater the drop in pressure in a segment or compartment the greater the?
Resistance to flow
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The greatest resistance to flow occurs in the?
Pre-capillary resistance vessels (arterioles, metaarterioles, precapillary sphincters)
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Resistance equals?
8nl/pi r^4
n=viscosity
l=length of vessel
r=radius
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A parallel circuits is?
Rt< smallest individual R
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A series circuit is?
Rt = sum of individual R's
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The systemic circulation is predominantly a?
Parallel circuit
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Parallel circuitry is independent of?
Local Flow Control
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Parallel circuitry increases or decreases?
Flow to tissues independently
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