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Which vessels branch from arteries?
The branches from arteries are arterioles and then into capillaries.
Is the artery the same size as your vein?
Arteries and veins can be different sizes, because large arteries branch into smaller arteries, which branch into capillaries. These capillaries branch into small veins, which branch into large veins. So yes, they can be (and usually are) the same size if (I am surmising this) they are the same distance from the capillaries.
What is the smallest branch of arteries?
The answer is the arteriole
What are examples of arterioles?
There isnt exactly specific arterioles because every conduction system of Arteries flow from Elastic arteries -> muscular arteries -> arterioles. Arterioles are the smallest of the arteries and produce the greatest vascular resistance of blood. The blood then passes onto capillaries for gas/waste/nutrient exchange.
The differences of the structure of an artery a veins a capillary?
Arteries carry blood away from the heart, veins carry blood to the heart, and capillaries branch off of arteries and veins. Capillaries are essentially min-arteries and min-veins.
Are capillaries tiny blood vessels that connect arteries to veins?
Arteries branch off from the heart, which then thin out into capillaries. The capillaries return through veins back to the heart which the oxygen poor blood is replenished with oxygen from the lungs.:D
Arteries branch into smaller vessels called?
Arteries branch into smaller vessels called arterioles. Arterioles are small diameter blood vessels that connect arteries to capillaries. They play a crucial role in regulating blood flow and blood pressure within the circulatory system.
What are the small arteries of the circulatory system?
As arteries become smaller to pass through narrower places, they are known as arterioles. Arterioles then branch out into capillaries.
Where are arterioles located?
Arterioles are small diameter vessels that branch off of your arteries. They inevitably connect arteries to capillaries. You can find them pretty much anywhere in your body
What are the the vein artiries and comparlies?
The arteries are blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart to the rest of the body. Arteries branch into smaller arterioles, which branch into capillaries. Capillaries are one-cell thick and have a diameter of about the width of one blood cell. Capillaries form into venules, which form into veins, which carry blood to the heart from the rest of the body. Click on related links for an illustration.
What do you call small artery?
a vein could be considered a smaller artery, they are smaller and take blood to the heart and arteries take it to the heart.
How is the circulatory system similar to a road and highway?
Large arteries and veins are like high-capacity highways, and they branch into smaller capillaries which go all through the body, so capillaries are like roads.
