Cardiovascular system: Arteries

1. What is the function of the arteries of the pulmonary circulation?

2. Name the arteries of the pulmonary circulation.
3. What separates the pulmonary trunk from the right ventricle?
4. Where does the pulmonary trunk pass through and in which direction?
5. Name the branches of the pulmonary trunk.
6. What is the function of the pulmonary veins?
7. What is the function of the arteries of the systemic circulation?
8. Where does systemic circulation begin?
9. What separates the left ventricle from the aorta?
10. What does the initial portion of the aorta form?
11. Where do the coronary arteries arise from?
12. Name the two branches of the aorta.
13. Describe where these two branches of the aorta.
14. What structure makes the aortic arch join the pulmonary trunk?
15. Give the position where the ascending aorta originates from during embryonic
development.
16. What is the clinical significance of the ascending aorta?
17. What rises from the aortic arch and branches cranially?
18. What structures does this branch of the aortic arch supply blood to?
19. Name the arteries the brachiocephalic trunk branches into.
20. What structures does the subclavian artery supply?
21. Give the five arteries that the subclavian artery branches into.
22. Name the branches of the costocervical trunk.
23. Name the branches of the internal thoracic artery.
24. Which artery is in direct continuation of the subclavian artery?
25. Describe each of the branches of the subclavian artery.
26. What structures are found between the deep cervical artery and the vertebral artery?
27. Name the artery that the subclavian artery wind around the cranial border of the first
rib to enter the forelimb.
28. Give the branches of the axillary artery and give the structures which they supply.
29. Which artery does the axillary artery continue as?
30. Where does the axillary artery change its name to the brachial artery?
31. What structure does the brachial artery and median nerve pass through in the cat?
32. Where does the superficial brachial artery leave the brachial artery and where does it
pass?
33. Name the branches of the brachial artery.
34. Name the branches of the median artery.
35. Name the branches of the median palmar artery.
36. Where does the median artery run and pass?
37. Which artery does the median artery become in the region of the third metacarpal
bone?
38. What is the main artery of the hoof and digit?
39. Give the clinical significance of the brachial and axillary arteries.
40. Name the trunk that arises from the brachiocephalic trunk.
41. Do cats and dogs have a bicarotid trunk?Explain
42. Where does the bicarotid trunk extend and which arteries does it branch into?
43. Where do the common carotid arteries ascend the neck and what structures are they
accompanied by?
44. What is the carotid sinus?
45. What is the carotid body?
46. What do the receptors in the carotid sinus stimulated by?
47. What do the chemoreceptor respond to in the carotid body?
48. Name and give the structures that the branches of the common carotid artery.
49. Name the branches of the cranial thyroid artery and give the structures they supply.
50. Name the branches of the external carotid artery and give the structures they supply.
51. Name the branches of the superficial temporal artery and give the structures they
supply.
52. Name the branches of the maxillary artery and give the structures they supply.
53. Name the branches of the inferior alveolar artery and give the structures they supply.
54. Name the branches of the external ophthalmic artery and give the structures they
supply.
55. Give the clinical significance of the facial artery.
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57. What supplies the heart with blood?
58. Where does the left coronary artery arise from?
59. Name the two branches the left coronary artery divides into.
60. Where does the right coronary artery arise from?
61. Which structures does the right coronary artery pass between?
62. Where do most of the coronary veins drain into?
63. Where does this vein run?
64. Is the erectile tissue continuous with the bloodstream?
65. Where is the erectile tissue found?
66. What are blood cushions?
67. Where are blood cushions?
68. What is the name given to arteries that supply other arteries?
69. Where do they attach to?
70. Is the epithelial vascularised?
71. Which nerve fibres cause vasoconstriction?
72. Where are the baroreceptors and chemoreceptors found in the circulatory system?
73. Where does the pulmonary trunk arise from?
74. Where does this trunk pass through?
75. What ligament joins the trunk of the right surface?
76. How many clusters the pulmoranry artery form in the dog?
77. Where does the aortic arch originate from?
78. Which arteries does the arotic arch give us?
79. Which artery in dogs and pigs arises directly from the aortic arch?
80. What structures does the subclavian artery supply?
81. How many branches does the subclavian artery in the intrathoracic path?
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