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BOOK QUESTION - HHIS
CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Vasa vasorum serve a function analogous to that of which of the following | Coronary arteries |
| What tissue is directly associated with and extends into the heart valves | Cardiac skeleton |
| Which of the following is true for ventricles | Walls contain Purkinje fibers of the right and left branches from the atrioventricular bundle |
| Individuals with Marfan syndrome have mutations in the fibrillin gene and commonly experience aortic aneurisms. What portion of the arterial wall is most likely to be affected by the malformed fibrillin | Tunica media |
| Which description is true of continuous capillaries | Most common in both brain and muscle |
| Which of the following is true of pericytes | Are associated with the basal lamina of capillary endothelial cells |
| During light microscopic examination of a tissue, you note a vessel that has no smooth muscle but a large amount of connective tissue at its periphery. Which of the following vessels are you examining | Venule |
| The patient recovers well from the surgery, but at a 6-month followup visit at the clinic her upper left arm is seen to be swollen and the surgeon prescribes a bandage wrap for “lymph edema.” This condition likely resulted from which of the following | Surgical disruption of the left arm’s lymphatic drainage by removal of lymph nodes |
| The problems with blood distribution in this patient’s leg are most likely associated with what vascular structures? | Arterioles |
| Cardiac catheterization reveals an occlusion of the left anterior descending and the origin of the right coronary artery. This disease process initially involved which one of the following | Injury to endothelial cells |