142 ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY FOR NURSES 



REVIEW QUESTIONS 



What constitutes the circulatory system? 

 Give the circulation of the blood. 

 What is the heart, and where is it located? 

 How is the heart subdivided? 

 What membrane encloses the heart? 



Name the valves contained within the heart, and location of each. 

 What valves present themselves at the beginning of the aorta? 

 What takes place when the ventricles contract? 

 How are the arteries distinguished? 

 In what direction does the arterial blood flow? 

 Give a description of the arteries. 

 What are the capillaries? 

 What is the aorta, and how is it divided? 



What important arteries are given off from the abdominal aorta? 

 What are the coronary arteries? What do they supply? 

 What important arteries pass to the brain? 

 What arteries supply the face with blood? 

 What does the occipital artery assist in supplying? 

 What important structures does the temporal artery supply? 

 What artery pierces the dura mater and divides into three branches? 

 What does the ophthalmic artery supply? 

 What artery supplies nutrition to the eye? 

 Describe the subclavian artery. 

 What do you understand by the vertebral arteries? 

 What important artery do the vertebral arteries form? 

 What muscles does the internal mammary artery supply? 

 Name the artery that supplies the intercostal spaces and pleura. 

 What artery is in the axillary space? 

 Under what bone do we find the subclavian artery? 

 Of what is the radial artery a branch? 

 What artery lies on the outer side of the forearm? 

 Which is the larger, the ulnar or the radial artery? 

 What forms the palmar arch in the hand? 



What is the abdominal aorta, and what important structures does this 

 supply? 



What artery supplies the diaphragm? 



What artery supplies the liver? 



What important structure does the splenic artery supply? 



Into how many branches does the splenic artery divide? 



What artery provides nutrition to the small intestine? 



