1. Questions for review of veins
1. What is the difference between the vein and artery of systemic circulation?
2. how many pulmonary veins are there in human body? What flow in them? where do they open
into?
3. the veins of systemic circulation include three parts. What are they?
4. which structures joined together to form the superior vena cava? Where does the superior vena
cava drain into ?
5. which structures joined together to form the brachiocephalic vein? What is the venous angle?
6. what are the main tributaries of the external jugular vein? Where does it flow into?
7. which structure is the internal jugular vein continuous with superiorly and inferiorly?
8. there was a children suffering from appendicitis, he had the intravenous administration
through the right external jugular vein. how did the medicine get to the appendix from the
external jugular vein?
9. there are three main superficial veins on the upper limb. what are they?
10. describe the origin, course and terminal of the three main superficial veins of the upper limb
separately.
11. what are the main tributaries of the accessory hemiazygos vein, hemiazygos vein and azygos
vein? How do they flow into the superior vena cava finally?
12. what are the main paired and unpaired tributaries of the inferior vena cava?
13. why the left testis is more likely to catch the testicular varicose vein?
14. where do the splenic vein and superior mesenteric vein united to form the hepatic portal vein?
15. please describe the blood circulation of liver.
16. what are the main seven kinds of tributaries of the hepatic portal vein?
17. what are the tributaries of the superior mesenteric vein?
18. a patient suffered from chronic appendicitis. a few days later, he felt uncomfortable at the
right hypochondriac region .his doctor told him that he had had the liver abscess. please
explain this clinical phenomenon.
19. a patient have antibiotics oral administration on account of the infection on the tip of right
index. how does the antibiotics get to the infected area?
20. what are the tributaries of the inferior mesenteric vein? Usually, which vein does the inferior
mesenteric drain into?
21. try to explain the following consequences of the cirrhosis on the base of the structural features
of hepatic portal vein and its tributaries: splenomegaly, hydroperitoneum, esophageal varices,
haemaemesis, rectal varices,haemafecia,haemorrhoid,abdominal wall varices and “caput
meduase”syndrome.
22. which veins is the inferior vena cava constituted by in front of the 5th lumbar vertebral body?
23. which veins converged together to form the common iliac veiv?
24. which part of the body does the internal iliac vein collect the blood from?
25. a female patient had bronchitis, she was performed the gluteal intramuscular injection. how
would the medicine get to the bronchi?
26. which veins do the external iliac vein continue with inferiorly and superiorly?
27. what are the two superficial veins of the lower limb? Describe the origin, course and terminal
of them.
2. 28. if a doctor want to performed the venesection of great saphenous vein in the emergency,
where is the common place for the doctor to find the great saphenous vein of the patient?
29. in clinic, how should the doctor locate the femoral vein in the femoral triangle when he want
to have the femoral pncture?
30. an old male patient caught chronic nephritis of the left kidney. The medicine was given in the
form of intravenous guttae at the dorsal venous arch of the right foot . How did the medicine
get to the diseased kidney?