1. The highest arterial blood pressure attained during ventricular contraction is called _______________ pressure, and the lowest attained during ventricular relaxation is called _______________ pressure.

2. The capillaries of skeletal muscle are of the structural type called _______________.

3. _______________ shock occurs as a result of exposure to an antigen to which one is hypersensitive.

4. The role of breathing in venous return is called the _______________.

5. The difference between the colloid osmotic pressure of blood and that of the tissue fluid is called _______________.

6. Movement across the capillary endothelium by uptake and release of fluid droplets is called _______________.

7. The pressure sensors in the major arteries near the heart are called _______________.

8. All efferent fibers of the vasomotor center belong to the _______________ division of the autonomic nervous system.

9. Most blood supply to the brain is from a ring of arterial anastomoses called the _______________.

10. The major superficial veins of the arm are the _______________ on the medial side and _______________ on the lateral side.

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