0
artery
Wiki User
∙ 11y ago
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
The main component of the tunica media of muscular arteries is?
Tunica Media or just Media is the central layer of arteries or veins. In the artery, it is composed of elastic tissue and smooth cell muscles.
What layer of an artery consists mostly of smooth muscle?
Arterial walls are more muscular than the walls of veins. This muscle is smooth involuntary muscle.
What are the tortures arteries and veins in our human body?
The tortures arteries and veins in the human body are those that cause extreme pain to our bodies when a person is injured. The tortures arteries are 1.uterine artery 2.maxillary artery 3.facial artery 4.spleenic artery 5.retinal artery
Largest artery in the heart?
The Aorta is the biggest artery, and the Superior and Inferior Vena Cava are the largest veins.
What veins and arteries travel through the renal sinus?
segmental artery, renal artery, renal vein, arcule vein, interlobular vein, interlobular artery
What layers of veins have muscles?
The Middle Layer, which is the Smooth Muscles.
The main component of the tunica media of muscular arteries is?
Tunica Media or just Media is the central layer of arteries or veins. In the artery, it is composed of elastic tissue and smooth cell muscles.
What layer of an artery consists mostly of smooth muscle?
Arterial walls are more muscular than the walls of veins. This muscle is smooth involuntary muscle.
Which of the following is a difference between arteries and veins?
artery walls have more elastic tissue and smooth muscle than veins,
What layer of an artery consists mostly of smooth muscles?
the tunica media is made of smooth muscles and elastic fibers.
What type of muscles are smooth muscles?
smooth muscles are involuntarily used muscles. these are present in the digestive system that moves and processes food. this is opposed to striped muscles that are voluntarily moved e.g. biceps; and cardic muscle that is present in the heart.
What kind of muscle tissue would you find in the blood vessels?
Arteries have smooth muscle in their walls. The smaller the artery is, the less muscle is found. Veins have none, they count on the skeltal muscles to move blood back to the heart. The veins also have valves which prevent back flow.
What are three places where smooth muscles can be found?
Your blood vessels intestines bladder and other involuntarily controlled muscles are smooth muscles
Which type of muscle constricts veins when blood pressure drops suddenly?
Smooth muscles constrict veins when blood pressure suddenly drops. These types of muscles are the non striated, involuntary muscles found in blood vessels, veins, arteries, the uterus, the bladder, and reproductive tracts.
What muscles make up walls of most internal organs?
Much of our internal organs is made up of smooth muscles. Smooth muscles make up the walls of many organs; eg bladder, gallbladder, arteries, and veins, digestive tract and oesophagus. The smooth muscles are controlled by hormones and the nervous system. Smooth muscles are often called involuntary muscles because we cannot control there movement.
When venous pressure is too low what stimulates the smooth muscles in the walls of veins to contract?
parasympathetic reflexes
Smooth muscles are sometimes called?
Involuntary Muscle Immerse yourself medical language, page 431: "Smooth muscles are involuntary, nonstriated muscles."
