Fill the vessel board

Exercise and reference answers

Clues and terms

1. Clue

   Tiny vessels inside a large vessel wall that feed its own living cells

   Item

   Vasa vasorum

2. Clue

   Small nerves in a wall that drive its smooth muscle to contract or relax

   Item

   Nervi vasorum

3. Clue

   Middle wall layer of smooth muscle, the thickest layer in most arteries

   Item

   Tunica media

4. Clue

   Simple squamous lining running from the heart chambers through every vessel

   Item

   Endothelium

5. Clue

   Vessel with features of both an arteriole and a capillary, feeding a bed

   Item

   Metarteriole

6. Clue

   Least common capillary, with gaps wide enough for whole cells to pass

   Item

   Sinusoid

7. Clue

   Irregular pulsating pattern of flow through a capillary bed

   Item

   Vasomotion

8. Clue

   White cells squeezing between endothelial cells into the tissue fluid

   Item

   Diapedesis

9. Clue

   Blood parked in liver, marrow and skin that constriction can send back

   Item

   Venous reserve

Instructions

Read each clue, then tap the term on the board that it describes.

Explanation