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It is because the capillary wall is only one-cell-thick. In addition, they have a large total surface area in contact with body cell and the blood flow is low.
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The vessels that permit exchange of materials between the cells and the blood are termed?
Capillary: A tiny blood vessel where substances are exchanged between the blood and the body cells.
What tube carries smoke in and out of the lungs?
The capillary is the smallest of the blood vessels. It is the site of gas exchange between the blood and the tissues.
Small blood vessel connecting arteries and veins that allows the exchange of gases and nutrientd bteween the cells and the blood?
Capillary vessels.
What Tiny blood vessels?
capillary
What blood vessels do the exchange of gases occur?
the blood vessel which allows gas exchange to occur is the capillaries
What in tobacco constricts blood vessels?
Nicotine is the blood vessels' constrictor. Not all blood vessels, of course, but mainly the peripheral blood vessels, including the brain capillary blood vessels.
What blood vessel connects the artery and vein?
The capillaries are the blood vessels that connect arteries and veins. Capillaries are the site of gas exchange in the body.
What is the definition capillary water?
It is the smallest blood vessels in the body that carries blood cells ,salts & nutrients to be supplied to tissues & organs.It is a minute(nm) tube that permits flow of minute solutions/gas in minimum molecular form.A capillary is the smallest blood vessel in the body. They are the vessels in which gas exchange occurs.
What blood vessels allow internal respiration?
Capillary
How does blood flow from the heart through the blood vessels?
artery- vein- capillary
Which vessels have valves?
capillary blood sugar vs venous blood sdugar
What are the blood vessels that drain blood directly from the capillary beds?
venule(veins)
