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If all your blood vessels were laid end to end could they make two circles around the moon?
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The equator, around Earth's total circumference as a sphere.
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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).
Where can your blood vessel be?
Blood vessels are found everywhere in your body, from the largest arteries and veins, to the smallest capillaries. When they are all added together into one line, they could stretch around the world twice! That means you have over 50,000 miles of blood vessels in your body! Wow!!!
What is a good sentence for the word blood vessels?
"Blood vessels" is actually two words, but here's a good sentence. The blood vessels of a blue whale are so large that a car could drive down some of them.
What do blood vessels have to prevent blood flowing backwards?
Blood vessels cant flow backwards because there is other blood forcing it to move forward. This is propelled by the heart, which is like a pump, and pushes blood around the body until it reaches the heart again. The only way blood could flow backwards was if the heart stopped.
What could happen if coronary blood vessels cannot perform their functions?
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Can blood flow without blood vessels?
Sure, but not in any organised way. Thing is, some sorts of cells might die in the presence of blood. Not having blood vessels could be very limiting for more complex or bigger lifeforms.
What are the major part and function of the circulatory system?
There are 3 parts the heart, the blood, and the blood vessels. HEART: the function of the heart is to pump the blood and so the blood could keep moving through out your whole body. THE BLOOD: the blood you have in your body carries nutrients, water, oxygen and waste products to form your body cells. THE BLOOD VESSELS: there are three types of blood vessels Arteries, Capillaries and the Veins Arteries are blood vessels that carry oxygen rich blood AWAY from the heart. Capillaries are tiny blood vessels as thin or thinner than the hairs on your head. Capillaries connect arteries to veins. Food substances (nutrients), oxygen and wastes pass in and out of your blood through the capillary walls. Veins carry blood back toward your heart.
What is microangiopathic gliosis?
Microangiopathic disease affects the small blood vessels in the body and cause changes in the blood vessels. Gliosis reflects the some damage to cells in the brain. Blood flow has been reduced in some area that could cause some damaged to cells.
How many km of blood vessels are there in the human body?
There are more than 100,000 km of blood vessels in the human body, enough to encircle the earth 2 1/2 times if they could be placed end-to-end.
What are two components of the cardiovascular system?
The cardiovascular system is generally divided into the heart and the blood vessels. However, another division could be between the pulmonary circulation and the systemic circulation.
What problems could be caused by obstructing the blood vessels of the cerebrum?
Lack of blood flow to the cerebrum can cause cell death. This is often called a stroke.
Why would a possum go around in circles?
To flatten the grass around them so they could sleep much similar to dogs
