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Why don arteries pulsate?

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They pulsate with each surge of blood from the heart with every contraction as the blood is under high pressure.

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What is the difference between the blood in the arteries and the blood in the veins?

Veins do not pulsate Arteries pulsate Veins can easily collapse Arteries do not collapse (except in shock) Veins contain valves Blood pressure is low in the veins and higher in the arteries


What pulsates in the body?

I'm guessing your heart pumps the blood around your body causing your arteries to pulsate. Hence your pulse.


Arteries of the body?

What arteries in your body don not cary oxygen?


What is the meaning of the pulse?

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Do arteriols pulsate?

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How could you use the word pulsate in a sentence?

Blenders have a pulsate setting.


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How does the direction blood travels in arteries and veins differ?

the blood in the arteries in oxygenated and is flowing away from the heart throughout the body tyo give your cells oxygen. the blood in the veins has had its oxygen depleted by your cells and is travelling back to the heart and lungs to get more oxygen


Why does my neck pulsate?

because a main artery flows through there. It's your heartbeat making it pulsate.


Do testicals pulsate?

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The astronomer's observations proved that cephid variable stars would pulsate in a regular cycle


To pulsate or beat strongly?

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