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AN69.1-3 | Blood Vessels — Glossary
Glossary — Blood Vessels
Key terms introduced in this module, in order of first appearance. Use this as a revision checklist.
| Term | Where Introduced |
|---|---|
| tunica media | hook |
| Atherosclerosis | relevance |
| Hypertension | relevance |
| Varicose veins | relevance |
| Capillary leak syndrome | relevance |
| Vasculitis | relevance |
| tunics | General Plan: The Three Tunics |
| Innermost | General Plan: The Three Tunics |
| Middle | General Plan: The Three Tunics |
| Outermost | General Plan: The Three Tunics |
| Endothelium | General Plan: The Three Tunics |
| Internal elastic lamina | General Plan: The Three Tunics |
| External elastic lamina | General Plan: The Three Tunics |
| Examples: | Elastic Arteries (Conducting Arteries) |
| Function: | Elastic Arteries (Conducting Arteries) |
| Microscopic features: | Elastic Arteries (Conducting Arteries) |
| Lumen: | Elastic Arteries (Conducting Arteries) |
| Tunica intima: | Elastic Arteries (Conducting Arteries) |
| Tunica media: | Elastic Arteries (Conducting Arteries) |
| 40–70 concentric elastic lamellae | Elastic Arteries (Conducting Arteries) |
| Tunica adventitia: | Elastic Arteries (Conducting Arteries) |
| High-yield fact: | Elastic Arteries (Conducting Arteries) |
| Clinical correlation: | Elastic Arteries (Conducting Arteries) |
| circularly arranged smooth muscle cells | Muscular Arteries (Distributing Arteries) |
| External elastic lamina: | Muscular Arteries (Distributing Arteries) |
| Identification trick on histology slide: | Muscular Arteries (Distributing Arteries) |
| Arterioles | Arterioles, Capillaries, and Venules |
| resistance vessels | Arterioles, Capillaries, and Venules |
| Capillaries | Arterioles, Capillaries, and Venules |
| endothelial cells | Arterioles, Capillaries, and Venules |
| basement membrane | Arterioles, Capillaries, and Venules |
| pericytes | Arterioles, Capillaries, and Venules |
| Continuous capillaries | Arterioles, Capillaries, and Venules |
| Fenestrated capillaries | Arterioles, Capillaries, and Venules |
| Sinusoidal capillaries (sinusoids) | Arterioles, Capillaries, and Venules |
| Venules | Arterioles, Capillaries, and Venules |
| Veins | Arterioles, Capillaries, and Venules |
| valves | Arterioles, Capillaries, and Venules |
| Endothelial cell ultrastructure: | Ultrastructure of Blood Vessels (AN69.3) |
| Tight junctions (zonula occludens) | Ultrastructure of Blood Vessels (AN69.3) |
| Weibel-Palade bodies | Ultrastructure of Blood Vessels (AN69.3) |
| Caveolae | Ultrastructure of Blood Vessels (AN69.3) |
| intermediate filaments | Ultrastructure of Blood Vessels (AN69.3) |
| actin microfilaments | Ultrastructure of Blood Vessels (AN69.3) |
| Basement membrane (basal lamina): | Ultrastructure of Blood Vessels (AN69.3) |
| type IV collagen | Ultrastructure of Blood Vessels (AN69.3) |
| laminin | Ultrastructure of Blood Vessels (AN69.3) |
| heparan sulphate proteoglycans | Ultrastructure of Blood Vessels (AN69.3) |
| Smooth muscle cell ultrastructure (tunica media): | Ultrastructure of Blood Vessels (AN69.3) |
| actin + myosin | Ultrastructure of Blood Vessels (AN69.3) |
| gap junctions | Ultrastructure of Blood Vessels (AN69.3) |
| Dense bodies | Ultrastructure of Blood Vessels (AN69.3) |
| Elastic fibres: | Ultrastructure of Blood Vessels (AN69.3) |
| elastin | Ultrastructure of Blood Vessels (AN69.3) |
| fibrillin | Ultrastructure of Blood Vessels (AN69.3) |
| Key histological points to carry forward: | summary |
| Elastic arteries | summary |
| Muscular arteries | summary |
| Indian clinical hook: | summary |
59 terms in this module