Chapter 6: Cardiovascular System
Chapter 6: Cardiovascular System
C. Premanandan
This chapter will cover the cardiovascular system.
Chapter Learning Objectives
By the end of this chapter, you should be able to do the following:
- Describe the different components of the circulatory system.
- Identify the tunica intima, tunica media, and tunica adventitia, naming the major components of each.
- Describe how the vascular tunics differ at different levels of the vasculature (ie. artery vs. vein)
- Explain the structure and function of endothelial cells.
- Describe the differences in structure between arteries, arterioles, metarterioles, capillaries, venules, veins and lymphatics.
- Explain the differences between continuous, fenestrated and sinusoidal capillaries.
- Describe the structures that comprise the heart.
- List the microscopic differences between skeletal and cardiac muscle
Review Questions
By the end of this chapter, you should be able to answer the following:
- What are functions and the components that comprise the following:
- Elastic artery
- Muscular artery
- Capillary
- Sinusoid
- Postcapillary venule
- Vein
- Lymphatic vessel
- Vasa vasorum and nervi vasorum
- Arteriovenous anastomosis
- Glomus body
- What is the role of endothelium in hemostasis?
- What are the differences between a continuous, fenestrated, and discontinuous capillary. List the anatomic locations where each can be found?
- How lymph is formed?
- How does a lymphatic vessel differs from a continuous capillary?
- What are functions and the components that comprise the following:
- Pericardium
- Endocardium
- Myocardium
- Intercalated disc
- Valve
- Purkinje cell
- Cardiomyocyte
- Mesothelial cell
