KROK 1 2008 – Question 159 · KROK (Medicine) · Histology, Cytology, and Embryology
A histological specimen of spleen shows a vessel with a wall consisting of endothelium and subendothelial layer, median membrane is absent, exterior membrane inosculates with the layers of spleen connective tissue. What vessel is it?
- A. Artery of muscular type
- B. Vein of non-muscular type
- C. Vein of muscular type
- D. Capillary
- E. Arteriole
Hint
Notice that the wall lacks a middle muscular layer and that the outer coat fuses with the surrounding splenic stroma; think about which vessels have such a thin wall.
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