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Constant level of nervous stimulation to the muscles in the blood vessel walls. This gives the muscles a resting level of contraction.
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What division is responsible for vasomotor tone?
Sympathetic nervous system
How does a disabled vasomotor center affect blood pressure?
Damage to your vasomotor center increases blood pressure.
Are the structures that specifically exhibit vasomotor tone mostly under sympathetic control?
True
Which is a type of circulatory shock?
Vascular, due to extreme vasodilation as a result of loss of vasomotor tone
A 60 year old is unable to walk 100 yards without experiencing severe pain in his left lower leg He was told to have the sympathetic nerves of the the vasomotor tone severed How does surgery help?
The sympathetic nerves that controls the vasomotor tone is known to cause the smooth muscle vessels to be in a state of moderate constriction. If severed it will cause a smoother blood flow.
Do opioids thin the blood?
No,opium do thin the blood rather it causes vasodilatation due todirect action decreasing tone of blood vesselshistamine releasedepression of vasomotor center
The vasomotor center is located in the medulla?
The vasomotor centre is 1 of 3 parts to the medula oblongata. the vasomotor centre controls the body's blood pressure and some other homeostatic processes
What is the function of the vasomotor center?
vasomotor centre is under medullary control and is responsible for vasoconstriction /vasodilatation so that blood pressure is maintained.
What is the actual size of an arteriole?
arterioles are door between heart &tissue this door must be closed most of times &it just open in need so our CNS & smooth muscle of arterioles work to keep this door closed by basal vascular tone & vasomotor tone
what are the vasomotor nerves?
Nerves that concern muscular movement.
Vasomotor instability causes what in menopause?
Hot flashes
What has the author Lars A Normell written?
Lars A. Normell has written: 'The cutaneous thermoregulatory vasomotor response in healthy subjects and paraplegic men' -- subject(s): Vasomotor system
