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What is the role of the blood vessels on the outside of a heart?
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∙ 15y ago
Capillaries are the smallest of a body's blood vessels, measuring 5-10 μm(Micrometre) in diameter, which connect arterioles and venules, and enable the interchange of water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and many other nutrient and waste chemical substances between blood and surrounding tissues.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 15y agoThese vessels supply the heart with the oxygen and nutrients is required to pump. The heart never gets a break and must exert a lot of force and so a huge supply is dedicated to the heary itself.
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∙ 11y agoNo. Capillaries are the tiny blood vessels where blood exchanges nutrients and oxygen with the cells. Blood passes through them one blood cell at a time.
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∙ 11y agoYes, capillaries are narrow blood vessels.
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