More fluid leaves the capillaries than returns.
the capillaries help you breath
At the arterial end of a capillary bed, blood pressure is higher than at the venous end. This pressure allows nutrients, oxygen, and other essential substances to be pushed out of the capillaries and into the surrounding tissues.
if a capillary bursts it is no biggie. it is just like getting a paper cut. you don't bleed a lot because in capillaries it is easy for platelets to heal it.
The capillary might burst (bruising) or, if it is the kidneys, the subject might pee blood.
it makes poo
The capillary thermostat has a capillary tube which is usually filled with a refrigerant which usually contracts or expands due to temperature. As the temperature expands this liquid and in turn this pressure presses against a bellows that pushes against a switch , the switch closes and the refrigerator runs until the capillary cools enough to decrease the pressure and the opposite happens.
The glomerulus is the cluster of capillaries that branch off the renal artery in the kidneys. It is here that filtrationtakes place - small molecules such as glucose, water, ions and amino acids diffuse through the narrow capillary walls and into the nephron.
If you imagine your right arm as an artery and your left arm as a vein, then clasp your fingers together gently and imagine this is a capillary bed. Arterioles and venules come together in capillary beds and as oxygen is exchanged to surrounding tissue the blood from arteries is passed through the arterioles, through the venules and into the veins to return to the heart. Check out the Wikipedia article in the related links, and look at the image on the right.
It is important because capillaries do most of their work of exchanging gases, oxygen and carbon dioxide, by diffusion, which works best under less pressure. ???That is not quite right. Exchange of gases occurs when there are different concentrations in a given sample and it has nothing to do with pressure. Filtration occurs under different pressure, diffusion happens regardless of pressure.
Capillary exchange- exchange of gases- internal or tissue respiration
The CO2 is diffused back into the alveoli, where, by the diaphragm, is pushed back into the environment by atmospheric pressure.
The CO2 is diffused back into the alveoli, where, by the diaphragm, is pushed back into the environment by atmospheric pressure.