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No, veins are not under high pressure. High-pressure vessels are the arteries.
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Do diamonds form under high or low pressure?
Diamonds form when they're under high pressure.
Which type of rocks are produced from other types of rocks under high temperature and pressure?
metamorphic
How does high pressure affect a hurricane?
A hurricane itself is a low pressure system, but a high pressure system in the same general region can affect the path a hurricane takes. A hurricane can get caught in the clockwise airflow around a high pressure system. For example, many hurricanes in the Atlantic are affected by the Bermuda High, a semipermanent high pressure area over the northern Atlantic. Hurricanes under its influence generally start out moving west and turn north in the western Atlantic or Caribbean.
Is 30.36 barometric pressure high pressure or low pressure?
That's pretty high.
What keeps the inner core in a solid state?
high pressure
Are capillaries under high or low pressure?
Average pressure, think about it as the distance from the heart. Capillaries are exactly the half way point between veins and arteries. Arteries are high pressure, veins are low pressure.
What blood vessel carries blood at high pressure and why?
Arteries carry blood at high pressure, simply because they are linked directly to the heart and lungs.
Why sluggish flow of blood in veins?
Blood flows slower in veins than arteries because veins have valves.Veins carry deoxygenated blood back to the heart, whereas the heart pumps oxygenated blood through the arteries to the body. Because it is going to the whole body, this blood needs to be at a high speed and under lots of pressure. Thus the heart contracts and pumps it through thick, muscular arteries under high pressure.Veins are thinner walled and have valves so that there is no backflow of deoxygenated blood due to the low pressure of the blood in veins. If veins were under high pressure they would gush into the heart and cause it to burst/explode.
What is a superficial vein in the leg?
The superficial veins of the legs connect to the deep veins through "penetrating veins" which run perpendicular to the skin from one to the other. The deep veins are essentially a column of blood running from your head to you feet and so when one is standing are under high pressure. In order to keep this pressure away from the frail superficial veins the penetrating veins have valves. When one of these valves goes bad the high pressure is allowed to go back to the superficial veins which blow up like balloons and become visible as what we call varicose veins (or "spider veins").
Does high blood pressure affect the veins?
Veins don't carry blood at high pressure arteries carry blood at high pressure. Arteries have a thick, elastic muscle layer that can handle high pressure of the blood flowing through them.
Is blood pressure higher in capillaries than in veins?
The blood is under low pressure once entering the capillary.
What does pulsing neck veins mean?
High blood pressure.
Why are valves not present in arteries?
valves are not present in arteries because in arteries there is high blood pressure
Can your spleen cause high blood pressure?
Indirectly perhaps, but it is the heart and the system of veins and arteries which are the problem in high blood pressure; the heart is pumping extra hard and/or the arteries/veins are restricted by blockage.
Which solution will have more gas dissolved in it a solution under high pressure or under low pressure?
A solution under a high pressure
Which solution will have more gas dissolved in it a solution under high-pressure or under low pressure?
A solution under a high pressure
Do varicose veins occur in deep veins too or just in the superficial veins?
Deep veins will distend also, but not as much due to the increased pressure on them. superficial veins are under much less pressure being closer to the surface and away from muscles, so the distension is much more obvious.
