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Are capillaries cells

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No, capillaries are tissues that form tubes to transport blood throughout the body. They are made of thousands of cells.

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What do the capillaries carry to the body cells?

Capillaries are very thin blood vessels. Oxygen and nutrients and hormones can pass through the walls of the capillaries and reach the body's cells, while red blood cells remain in the capillaries.


What so capillaries do in cells?

Capillaries do not occur in cells.Capillaries are larger than cells, indeed capillaries are made of cells.Capillaries are the smallest blood vesicles.


The transport of oxygen by hemoglobin occurs in the?

capillaries between the cells in the lungs or the capillaries between the cells in the body


Why do capillaries have spaces between endothelial cells?

So that white and red blood cells can pass through the capillaries


How are arterioles capillaries and venules related?

Arterioles are the small arteries that lead into the capillaries, which connect to cells in the body. Venules are the small veins that the capillaries flow back into, leaving the cells.


Why white blood cells pass through capillaries while red blood cells not?

Both red and white blood cells pass through the capillaries.


How do human cells get water?

Human cells get water from capillaries.


What do regular cells get from red blood cells at the capillaries?

oxygen


What do capillaries carry to your body's cells and away from the cells?

blood


How does oxygen get from red blood cells to body cells?

capillaries


Where do the capillaries carry the blood?

Cells


Which cells are in the body?

veins, capillaries, arteries or white cells and red cells