answersLogoWhite

0

tube like structures which carries the blood

User Avatar

Wiki User

13y ago

What else can I help you with?

Related Questions

Who was the first to discover that blood circulates in the body in blood vessels?

In Englishman named William Harvey was first to describe that blood circulates by blood vessels.


How will you describe the circulatory system?

The circulatory system is made up of heart, blood vessels, and especially the blood that delivers to the whole body and lungs by the blood vessels.


Can you describe the three kinds of blood vessels?

Arteries, veins, capillaries.


How do you describe a vasodilation mean?

Vasodilation means the widening of blood vessels that results from relaxation of the muscular walls of the vessels.


Why are there no blood vessels in the joint cavity of a synovial joint?

Because movement would damage the delicate blood vessels.


What does cardiovascular system consist of?

The heart and the blood vessels of the body.


Do your blood vessels grow as you grow?

As you grow, your blood vessels do as well. This is why only an adult human body's blood vessels, when all connected, can reach halfway to the moon, whereas a child's would not. These blood vessels also stretch when you grow or flex.


Is canaliculi a blood vessel?

No. This term is not used to describe blood vessels. A canaliculus is a passageway like that of the tears in the lacrimal apparatus in the eye.


What describe the operation of the heart and blood vessels?

Prokaryotic cells that transport oxygen to other cells in the body. what the discription of bloode vessels


If you didn't have blood vessels you would be called a what?

You would be called a dead person because, without blood vessels, your blood can't travel, and if your blood can't travel, you can't breathe, and if you can't breathe, you will die.


Describe one similarity and one differences between the muscle tissue and the blood vessels you viewed with the microscope?

Muscle tissue and blood vessels both use fibroblasts, a precursor for the smooth muscle cells that stabilize the blood vessels. One difference is that the muscle tissue requires oxygenated blood in order to function.


How many kilometers of blood vessels are in your body?

How many kilometers of blood vessels are in your body? If they could be laid end to end, the blood vessels would cover a distance of about 60,000 miles (96,500 kilometers).