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How do capillaries relate to veins and arteries and what happens to the capillaries?
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If you imagine your right arm as an artery and your left arm as a vein, then clasp your fingers together gently and imagine this is a capillary bed. Arterioles and venules come together in capillary beds and as oxygen is exchanged to surrounding tissue the blood from arteries is passed through the arterioles, through the venules and into the veins to return to the heart.
Check out the Wikipedia article in the related links, and look at the image on the right.
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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.
What are the names of the 3 blood vessles?
Arteries, capillaries, & veins.
What is the blood vessel connecting capillaries to arteries?
Venules, they are smaller and thinner than veins.
What are the three types of blood vesel in the body?
Arteries, veins, capillaries.
What is the smallest of the three veins capillaries and arteries?
Capillaries. They are the microscopic tubes that connect the veins and the arteries.
Which vessels branch from arteries?
The branches from arteries are arterioles and then into capillaries.
What are the kinds of blood vessels?
Capillaries, arteries, and veins are the kinds of blood vessels.
What happens in capalaries?
Capillaries are the endpoints of the circulatory system. They are where veins and arteries meet (arteries carry red blood, which comes from the heart, moving toward the capillaries, and veins carry blue blood, which heads from the capillaries toward the heart).
What are the similarities between arteries and capillaries and veins?
Veins, capillaries and arteries is that they are all stops for blood.
What vessels that connect arteries to veins?
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.
