Exam 13: The Vascular System

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

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

A venous anastomosis is important because it:

A venous anastomosis provides an alternate pathway for blood to flow back to the ____________________.

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

Which statement is NOT true of fetal circulation?

Which vein is NOT paired with the part of the body it drains of blood?

Velocity of blood flow is slowest in the:

Veins are able to constrict and increase venous return because of their:

In capillaries,nutrients are brought out into tissues by the process of ____________________.

In capillaries,oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged between blood and tissues by the process of ____________________.

An anastomosis in the vascular system is a connection between:

Which statement is NOT true of capillaries?

In capillaries,colloid osmotic pressure is created by the presence of ____________________ in the blood.

Which of the following statements are true of the body's responses to a small loss of blood? (Read carefully and select all of the correct statements.)

abdominal aorta

The tissue of which capillaries are made is:

When BP decreases,the kidneys secrete ____________________,which initiates the formation of ____________________.

When venous return increases,the heart contracts more forcefully.This is called:

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