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