Study Guide Exam 3

The cranial nerve that supplies parasympathetic innervations to the majority of the thoracic and abdominal cavities is

What structures anchor the chordae tendinae?

Which of the following structures is not found in the left ventricles:

Pectinate muscles 
The bicuspid valve
papiallary muscles
trabeculae muscles

The right ventricle pumps blood into which vessel?

drop of blood returning to the heart from the head region would enter the heart through which vessel?

Blood within the pulmonary veins returns to the?

Blood is carried to capillaries in the myocardium by way of the

Which layer of blood vessels contains epithelial tissues?

Choose the blood vessel responsible for draining the majority of blood from the brain?

Functionally there are no valves in arteries because:

What vessel in the fetus connects the pulmonary trunk to the aortic arch so that much of the blood bypasses the immature lungs

The abdominal aorta divides its distal end into which arteries

Choose the missing blood vessels in the pathway supplying blood to the right arm:
Aortic arch
subclavian artery
axilary artery
brachial artery

Most systemic venous blood is both oxygen poor and nutrient poor. However systemic venous blood that is oxygen poor and nutrient rich occurs in

The three arteries that branch from the aortic arch are in order the

Which artery arises from the inferior part of the abdominal aorta and supplies the distal end of the large intestines?

Which vessel is missing from the following statement: “Tracing blood that drains from the large intestine, we find that blood leaves the intestinal capillaries and passes through the superior mesenteric vein, the hepatic vein, the liver sinusoid capillaries and the inferior vena cava”

If both common carotid arteries were blocked, which might continue to carry blood to the brain?

The popliteal artery supplies

The veins that merge to form the inferior vena cava are the

Which of the following are not involved in the systemic circulation?
right ventricle, pulmonary artery, left atrium

The epicardium is the same as the

The heart chamber with the thickest wall

Of the three layers of the heart wall, the layer that contains the cardiac muscle:

The antrioventricular node is located in the

Of the following heart chambers, the one with the thinnest wall

Which of the following is not part of the conduction system of the heart

AV valve
SA node
AV mode
AC bundle

Which branch of the abdominal aorta supplies the stomach

Which of the following are involved in the pulmonary circulation?

The anterior cardiac vein runs with which artery

The type of leukocyte that releases histamine is

Usually the most numerous of the leukocytes are the

The smallest and most abundant plasma proteins belong to the category of:

the great saphenous vein