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What does blood transport around your body?
blood transports oxygen and nutrients
What connective tissue transport nutrients and defends against disease?
blood
What is the name of the space in a blood vessel wherein blood flows?
Lumen
What blood vessel has the widest lumen?
The aorta is the blood vessel with the widest lumen. In contrast, capillaries are the blood vessels with the narrowest lumen.
What three does the blood transport?
The three items that the blood transports includes nutrients, oxygen, and metabolic waste.
Lumen is the size of red blood cells?
The lumen is the size of the inside of the blood vessel. The type of blood vessel that has a lumen approximately the same diameter as a single red blood cell is a capillary.
What system transport oxygen and nutrients to the cells of your body?
Your blood does this; IE; your Cardiovascular system.
How come smooth muscle fibers of an artery do not get nutrients from lumen?
The Vasa Vasorum supply the wall of the large arteries This method to feed the smooth muscle is necessary as the endothelium covering the lumen doesn't permit the ready diffusion of nutrients from the lumen.
What transports through a white blood cell?
nothing, white blood cells kill bacteria they dont transport nutrients
Double lumen PICC line colors and what they mean?
Double-lumen PICC lines come in two colors. Red is the blood access lumen or arterial lumen and blue is the blood return lumen or venous lumen. Despite the names, neither lumen is leads to an artery, but both lead into a vein.
What is the function of a blood vessele?
blood vessels carry/distribute blood and nutrients throughout body.Blood vessels carry blood round the body, to and from the heart.Blood stores oxygen and nutrients to be distributed throughout the body, and blood vessels are their means of transport. the function of the blood vessels is to transport blood to all part of the body.The blood vessels carry the oxygen rich blood to the cells, and the carbon dioxide and wastes away from them. They act sort of like channels through which the nutrients can flow.
What is the internal space of a blood vessel called?
called lumen
