Arteries

True or false:

Arteries are responsible for ONLY carrying oxygenated blood.

• True

• False

___ connect arteries to veins.

• Arterioles

• Capillaries

• Venules

• Veins

The artery that runs behind the knee is the:

• Popliteal artery

• Femoral Artery

• Posterior tibial artery

• Anterior tibial artery

A hematoma is the:

• uncontrollable bleeding

• pooling of blood

• rupturing of a blood vessel

• weak spot in a blood vessel

The ___ and ___ arteries supply the brain with blood.

• internal carotid and vertebral

• external carotid and vertebral

• coronary and vertebral

• carotid and vertebral

The brachiocephalic trunk is on the ___ side of the body, near the ___ area.

• left, clavicle

• left, shoulder

• right, shoulder

• right, clavicle

Which of the following supplies the liver with blood?

• Inferior mesenteric artery

• Superior mesenteric artery

• Celiac trunk

• Renal arteries

The ___ artery breaks into the radial and ulnar arteries.

• Brachial

• Subclavian

• Femoral

• Axillary

The internal and external carotids derive from the:

• Carotid arteries

• Common carotid arteries

• Subclavian arteries

• Vertebral arteries

ALL arteries derive directly or indirectly from the:

• Left atrium

• Aorta

• Superior vena cava

• Heart