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No, capillaries are not arteries. Capillaries very tiny vessels where food, waste, and gasses are transferred between the cells and blood. Arteries are large to moderate sized vessels that deliver blood from the heart to the capillaries.
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Which is thicker an artery or a capillary?
a capillary
What is wider artery a vein or capillary?
artery
What is an aorta a artery vein or capillary?
The aorta is the largest artery.
How do portal vein differ for portal artery is function?
There is no portal artery. A portal vein connects one capillary bed to a second capillary bed. (in series)
What tiny vessel connects an artery to a vien?
a capillary
Why mosquito feeds from a capillary and not from an artery?
Care for sea.
Tiny blood vessels joining artery with vein?
the smallest blood vessel is the capillary, then the vein, and the artery. (vein and artery depends though because when they diffuse they get smaller and close to the same size) but the smallest will always be the capillary.
What are the tree kinds of blood vessels?
Artery, Vein and Capillary
What is a pulmonary arteriole?
a small artery that leads to a capillary network
Who discover artery capillary and vein?
Myrae Ging Bonner
What structure within a capillary bed shunts blood from arteriole to venule?
Artery -> Arteriole -> Capillary -> Venule -> Vein
Very small tube that carrys blood?
Inside the body it would be a Capillary, vein or an artery, Capillary being the smallest
