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it has many more capillaries...if you were to wrap all of your capillaries around earth it would wrap around twice
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What is the blood vessel connecting capillaries to arteries?
Venules, they are smaller and thinner than veins.
What is difference between capillaries and veins?
Capillaries are smaller, thinner and have less surface area than veins. Veins take blood to the heart, and capillaries are the thin tubes that connect the veins and arteries together.
What are facts about capillarys?
Capillaries are thin tubes connected to your veins and arteries that transfer the blood from the arteries to the veins. Capillaries are so thin, they are thinner than one piece of hair. They are one cell thick.
What is the difference between artries veins and capillaries?
Arteries carry oxygenated blood away from the heart, to the cells that need them. Veins carry blood containing carbon dioxide back to the heart after the oxygen has been given to the cells. Capillaries are the thinnest arteries and veins. They are only one cell wide. As the blood cell passes through the very thin capillary, the cells on either side are given oxygen and carbon dioxide is taken from them. Therefore, the capillaries connect the arteries and veins. Veins are thinner than arteries. Arteries are thicker than capillaries.
Why do most tissues have a greater supply of capillaries than veins and arteries?
Capillaries service cells, arteries and veins transport blood to and from capillaries, respectively.
Are veins smaller blood vessels than capillaries?
No its not
Which veins open up into the capillaries?
plmonary veins begin as capillaries and end as capillaries
Name three blood vessels?
the three blood vessels are the Veins capillaries Arteries the arteries.
What structures connect the smallest arteries with the smallest veins?
Capillaries are the structures that connect arteries to veins.
How long is all the veins arteries and capillaries combined?
The total length of all arteries, veins, and capillaries in an adult human body is more than 100,000 kilometers.
What are the names of the 3 blood vessles?
Arteries, capillaries, & veins.
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.
