HUBS192 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Posterior Tibial Artery, Vasa Vasorum, Median Cubital Vein

• School: University of Otago
• Department: Human Body Systems
• Course: HUBS192
• Professor: Greg Jones

Document Summary

Drainage: via posterior tibial vein femoral vein common iliac vein inferior vena cava (drains into right atrium); know the name of these major vessels. Can also drain via superficial pathways; (great saphenous vein); runs in the superficial compartment; runs under skin, as it approaches the trunk it dives deep (joins the femoral vein); back into abdomen. Deep arterial supply + deep and superficial venous drainage. Drainage: deep veins such as radial vein/ulnar vein (these sit next to their matching artery) brachial vein join up with axillary vein back into chest (deep venous drainage system) Small veins uniting into larger veins till becoming the largest vein superior vena cava into the right atrium. Endothelium: single layer (simple); squamous (flat, cobble-stone like); lines all vessels and heart valves. They stop the blood from clotting; inhibits intravascular coagulation; prevent blood from clotting inside vessel (non- thrombogenic)