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In the body, capillary tubes are in fact microscopic. However, the capillary effect can be viewed on a much larger scale. If one was to place a straw in a glass of water, one would see that the water level in the straw is higher than that of the glass of water, this is because the molecules of water are attracted to the wall of the straw, and each other.
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Is capillary a blood vessel?
Yes, the capillaries are the smallest kind of blood vessel, that facilitate the movement of substances (like oxygen and glucose) in and out of the blood through their very thin walls.
What are the narrowest kind of blood vessel?
Capillary
What is the name of the smallest kind of blood vessel?
Capillaries are the smallest of all blood vessels.
What kind of vessel gives blood to a capillary?
Either a arteriole on the artery side or a venule on the vein side of the bed.
Which structure in the circulatory system is known to be the smallest kind of blood vessel?
Capillaries, having diameters between about 0.0005 to about 0.008 inches, are the smallest blood vessels.
What is the narrowest kind kind of blood vessel?
capillaries
What kind of vessel has the lowest blood pressure?
veins
In which kind of blood vessel is blood pressure highest?
The arteries, but to be exact, the aorta.
What kind of blood vessels bypass capillary bed in the tissue?
metarterioles when resistance is low
What kind of blood vessel often carries both oxygenated and deoxygenated blood?
red blood cells
What blood vessels stretch because of blood pressure?
there is not a certain kind of vessel; all the vessels stretch.
If a blood contains a valve what kind of vessel it ts?
The only blood vessels that contain valves are veins.
