Chp 14 Physio

Which of the following equations correctly relates flow, pressure, and resistance

What is the driving force for blood flow through the systemic circuit?

In comparison to the systemic circuit, the pulmonary circuit

Which of the following would increase the rate of blood flow through a blood vessel?

Which of the following equations is correct?

Which of the following is NOT a component of the microcirculation?

The lumen of every blood vessel is lined by a monolayer of what cell type

What is/are the component(s) of a blood vessel's extracellular matrix that provide(s) the tensile strength required to withstand pressure?

The elastic nature of the largest blood vessel's walls allows them to act as a ________, maintaining the driving force for blood flow while the heart is relaxed during diastole.

The blood vessels of largest diameter are the ________, and the blood vessels with the thickest walls are the ________.

What component of artery walls allows them to store energy that is later used to maintain continuous blood flow through the circulatory system?

Arteries have ________ compliance and ________ resistance to flow.

What is a measure of the change in vascular volume as pressure within the vessel is altered

Resistance to blood flow is regulated primarily by what blood vessels

In the circulatory system, the largest pressure drop occurs across which blood vessels

The total cross-sectional area is greatest in which blood vessels

The contractile activity of smooth muscle cells within which type of blood vessel is primarily involved in the control of the organ blood flow and mean arterial pressure?

Blood flow velocity is inversely proportional to the pooled surface area of a structure; therefore, it is greatest in the ________ and slowest in the ________.

Which of the following statements about smooth muscle in arterioles is FALSE

What is the purpose of extrinsic control of arteriolar smooth muscle contractile activity

Which of the following chemicals' concentration is NOT increased by an elevation in metabolic activity

Chemicals released by metabolically active cells will cause which of the following

What is a decrease in tissue oxygen called?

What is an increase in blood flow in response to an increase in tissue metabolic activity called?

In response to a decrease in tissue metabolic activity, tissue oxygen concentrations ________, which causes a(n) ________.

A decrease in pressure within an arteriole will initiate a(n)

Which of the following accurately compares active hyperemia to reactive hyperemia?

An increase in the concentration of which of the following within the interstitial space surrounding an arteriole would cause that vessel to constrict?

Which of the following would decrease mean arterial pressure

What type of adrenergic receptor is found in the smooth muscle of most systemic arterioles?

The effects of epinephrine on vascular resistance are dependent upon which of the following

In cardiac and skeletal muscle vasculature, the distribution of alpha and beta receptors is such that epinephrine will