Exam 13: The Vascular System

In capillaries, oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged by the process of:

In fetal circulation, exchanges between fetal blood and maternal blood take place in the ____________________.

Following a small loss of blood, the kidneys will:

Simple squamous epithelium forms the ____________________ of an artery, and its function is to ____________________.

In fetal circulation, the vessel that takes most incoming blood to the inferior vena cava is the ____________________.

In fetal circulation, blood flows from the placenta to the fetus through the ____________________.

Which of the following statements are true of cardiac output? (Read carefully and select all of the correct statements.)

The layer in the wall of a vein that is folded into valves is the:

Blood flows from the fetus to the placenta through the:

Capillaries are made of ____________________ tissue, and its important characteristic is its ____________________.

The effect of the hormone ANP on blood pressure is to:

In capillaries, waste products dissolved in tissue fluid are returned to the blood by the process of:

In fetal circulation, the foramen ovale permits blood to flow from the ____________________ to the ____________________.

In portal circulation, blood from the ____ flows through the liver before returning to the ____.

Capillaries are made of simple squamous epithelium because this tissue is:

To compensate for a small loss of blood, the arteries will ____________________.

Anastomoses are important if a blood vessel becomes blocked because they:

The nerves to the smooth muscle of all arteries and veins are:

When blood pressure decreases, the kidneys secrete ____, which will initiate the formation of angiotensin II.

The layer of the wall of an artery that is smooth to prevent abnormal clotting is the ____________________.