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What is the name of the tiny blood vessels that connect the veins and arteries and allow oxygen and nutrients to pass through?
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Vessels that connect arteries to veins and where the tissues exchange gases and nutrients with the blood are called?
Capillaries
What vessels are connect arteries and veins?
cappillaries
Vessels that connect arteries and veins?
capillaries
What are tiny blood vessels connect veins and arteries?
Arteries divide into smaller vessels called Arteriols. Arteriols subdivide into even smaller vessels called capillaries, where oxygen, nutrients, hormones are delivered to the tissues of the body. Waste products are also picked up by capillaries and delivered to venules which grow into larger vessels called veins. Veins deliver deoxygenated blood back to the heart.
What vessels that connect arteries to veins?
Capillaries
What arteries nourish the heart?
The coronary arteries are the blood vessels that nourish the heart. Even though blood goes through the heart, that blood is not the way that the muscle itself picks up nutrients and disposes of wastes.
Which vessels branch from arteries?
The branches from arteries are arterioles and then into capillaries.
What is it capillaries do?
they are tiny blood vessels around the body that connect arteries to veins. they transport oxygen,nutrients etc around the body and collect waste products
What are arterioles and what are capillaries?
Arteioles are blood vessels that connect arteries and capillaries. Capillaries are blood vessels that connect arterioles and venules
Microscopic blood vessels that connect arteries and veins?
Capillaries
What are microscopic blood vessels that connect arteries and veins?
CAPILLARIES
What are microscopic blood vessels that connect arteries to veins?
capillaries
