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Arteries have thick muscular walls to push your blood and spread out the pulse so it lowers its pressure. Your blood pressure is quite high when it leaves your heart and it comes in pulses. When it finishes going through your arteries and into your capillaries, your body wants it to go slow and be gentle. The muscles in your arteries change it to a smoother flow as they push it along.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoNo, Arteries have thick muscular walls. Arteries are the blood vessles going away from the heart therefor the blood pressure is higher in these vessles so the walls have to be thicker. Veins still have muscles but they are thinner and have valves as they generally help the blood travel back up the body towards the heart and the valves stop the blood going the wrong way in the vessle.
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∙ 14y agoArteries do have thick, muscular walls. They have thick, muscular walls to withstand the blood flowing through it at high speed and pressure.
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What is atheosclerosis?
A disease of the arteries that is characterized by the accumulation of lipid containing material called plaque on the inner walls of the arteries
How thick are the walls of capillaries compared to those of arteries and veins?
Arteries and veins have much thicker walls compared to capillaries. The largest arteries and veins have walls up to 5 mm thick, while capillaries have walls that are only one cell layer thick.
What is the stucture of an artery?
The walls of the arteries are very thick in fact artery walls consist of three cell layers.
What is the thickening of the inner wall of an artery called?
Arteriosclerosis is the medical term meaning progressive thickening of the inner walls of arteries.
Why do you think arteries function better with thick walls?
Because they have to deal with high pressure blood
What is the thickness of an artery's walls?
It all depends on which one you are comparing, because they come in large ones like the Aorta, down to tiny ones called arterioles. In any case, they are thicker than their corresponding vein.
What blood vessel disease occurs when fatty deposits build up on the inner walls of the arteries?
arteriosclerosis
What are the characteristic of arteries?
They have thick walls and carry oxygenated blood from the heart around the body
What blood vessels have thick walls?
Arteries have thick elastic walls that can expand and contract, because they carry blood pumped from the heart. Veins return the blood to the heart but the pressure is not the same as in the arteries.
Where does the apostrophe go in 'the arteries walls'?
The arteries' walls.
Why are the walls of arteries proportionately thicker than those of the corrosponding veins?
Artery walls need to be thick because they have to cope with high pressures produced by the cardiac cycle, the arterys are made thick by cardiac muscle.
What is the wall of a artery called?
Walls of arteries are made up of different cells, muscle, and connective tissue and is very thick. The walls have to be thick because the pressure from the blood is so great that without the thickness, the walls would easily rupture, which would be fatal.
