4 A blood clot that forms along the wall of a blood vessel is called a thrombus.

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4 A blood clot that forms along the wall of a blood vessel is called a thrombus. An embolus is piece of a thrombus that breaks off and flows through the blood until its gets stuck in a small blood vessel downstream from the original thrombus a Trace the pathway an embolus that broke off from a thrombus in the femoral artery would take (assume it gets stuck in arterioles, before it reaches capillary beds): Trace the pathway an embolus that broke off from a thrombus in the femoral vein would take (assume it gets stuck in arterioles, before it reaches capillary beds) b pa

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a) trace the pathway an embolus that broke off from a thrombus in the femoral artery would take
(assume it gets stuck in arterioles, before it reaches capillary beds):

Femoral artery? popliteal artery ? anterior tibial artery ? dorsalis pedis artery ? arterioles in foot
? stuck

b) trace the pathway an embolus that broke off from a thrombus in the femoral vein would take (assume it gets stuck in arterioles, before it reaches capillary beds):

Femoral vein ? external iliac vein ? common iliac vein ? inferior vena cava ? right atrium ? right ventricle ? pulmonary trunk ? pulmonary artery ? pulmonary arterioles ? stuck

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