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Assignment:
Answer the following questions:
1. How is the venous blood returned to the heart?
2. At rest, which vessel(s) acts as blood reservoirs?
3. Define anastomose.
4. Know the information about blood flow covered in the lecture.
5. Define blood pressure and what are the normal values?
6. How is blood pressure determined?
7. What are the effects of vasodilation and vasoconstriction on blood pressure?
8. What does systolic and diastolic pressure mean?
9. What is mean arterial pressure? Why is it important?
10. Define pulse and give normal values. Define tachycardia and bradycardia.
11. How does your body regulate blood pressure (neural and hormonal controls)? The flow chart is the best way to study this part.
12. What is autoregulation?
13. Define bulk flow.
14. Define hydrostatic and osmotic pressure. What are their normal values in the capillary and interstitial fluid at the beginning and at the end of the capillary?
15. What is filtration and reabsorption? Where in the capillary do they happen? Where is the fluid moving towards in each one?
16. What is the normal NFP (net filtration pressure) at the beginning of the capillary and the end?
17. What happens to the extra fluid left in the interstitial fluid after capillary exchange?