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What is an enlargement or dilation of blood vessel wall commonly referred to as ballooning?

An enlargement or dilation of blood vessel wall is called an aneurysm


When contraction of the smooth muscle in a blood vessel wall results in the vessel is referred to as being in a condition of?

vasoconstriction


What is your vein?

Typically referred to as a blood vessel. A tube like structure that carries blood to the heart.


In what type of blood vessel does most of the exchange of materials take place?

Capillaries


Which blood vessel carries blood?

Veins, Arteries (Capillaries are also blood vessels, but the main job is gas exchange).


What is the process of stopping the flow of the blood from a broken blood vessel?

Cauterization is sometimes referred as the method to stop bleeding


Small blood vessel connecting arteries and veins that allows the exchange of gases and nutrientd bteween the cells and the blood?

Capillary vessels.


What blood vessel carries on the important function of gas exchange?

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What type of blood vessel directly serves the needs of body cells?

Capillaries are the type of blood vessel that directly serves the needs of body cells by allowing for the exchange of oxygen, nutrients, and waste products between the blood and the surrounding tissues.


When a blood vessel gets damaged contractions of smooth muscle referred to as help constrict the vessels to reduce blood flow?

This is called myosin-regulated contraction. The entire muscle acts as a draw-string and constricts the vessel and slows blood flow.


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 is the medical term meaning expansion of a blood vessel?

Dilation of a blood vessel is the term for physiologic widening of the vessel. Abnormal widening of the blood vessel through a weakening of the wall is known as aneurysm.Dilation of a blood vessel means widening of the vessel.