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The smallest and most numerous blood vessels in the human body?
The smallest blood vessels are the capillaries.
Where does blood flow most slowly?
Blood flows the fastest as it exits the heart into the Aorta.
What are the most narrow blood vessels?
Capillaries. They're so small that red blood cells are sometimes forced to travel single-file.
Where does most gas exchange between blood and tissue take place?
In the alveoli of the lungs. This is where oxygen diffuses from the lungs into the bloodstream and carbon dioxide diffuses out of the bloodstream and into the lungs.
Which is the most porous capillaries?
Most porous capillaries are present in glomerulous in a Bowmans capsule of nephron .They help in filtration of blood . Tortuous nature of capillaries also helps in filtration .
What is the most common blood vessel in a humans body?
capillaries
Which blood vessels cover most area of the body?
Capillaries.
What are small blood vessels called?
The answer you are looking for is most likely a "capillary". "Capillaries are the smallest of a body's blood vessels...which connect aterioles and venules, and enable the interchange of water, oxygen, and carbon dioxide, and many other nutrient and waste chemical substances between blood and surrounding tissues."
Why do most tissues have a greater supply of capillaries than veins and arteries?
Capillaries service cells, arteries and veins transport blood to and from capillaries, respectively.
What vessel contains most of the blood in the body?
the capillaries are the most common blood vessel in the human body.
Most of the action of the blood actually takes place within these?
capillaries
Are most of our blood vessels arteries veins or capillaries?
They can be what ever you want them to be!
