Embryology: practice question

The best answer is D, Ductus venosus. The ductus venosus shunts oxygenated umbilical venous blood toward the inferior vena cava, bypassing much of the fetal liver.

Foramen ovale shunts blood between atria.

Umbilical arteries carry blood toward the placenta.

Ductus arteriosus connects pulmonary artery to aorta.

It tests Embryology in Anatomy. The correct option holds because: Correct: ductus venosus provides the hepatic bypass.

We tag it as an application question: it asks you to use a fact on a patient or a finding. The tag is our own editorial judgement, not an official difficulty rating, so read the reason for every option, not only the answer.

Learn every nerve by its route, its muscles and what a lesion looks like at the bedside. That one habit answers a large share of questions. Then use the flashcards and the other Anatomy questions on this site to test what stuck.

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