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What structure is microscopic blood vessels that are only one cell in thickness?
capillaries
What is the medical term meaning one cell in thickness and are the smallest blood vessels?
The smallest blood vessels are the capillaries.
What size are capillaries?
5- 10 microns in cross section and the capillary wall thickness is 0.59 - 0.67 micron
What blood vessels on one cell thickness?
Capillaries are the smallest blood vessels in the body (in terms of diameter), measuring about 20 micrometres (or one cell) across.
Capillaries that have a incomplete lining are called?
continuous capillaries continuous capillaries
What is the alveoli surface made of?
Much of the surface of each of the approximately 300 million alveoli in a human lung is a layer of simple epithelial tissue on a fine mesh of capillaries. Forming a membrane only the thickness of one cell, simple epithelium allows the passage of gases between the lungs and the capillaries.
How does the thick capillary wall help blood move slowly?
Capillaries do not vary in thickness, they are very thin. The thin wall permits the exchange between the blood in the capillary and the adjacent tissue cells.
What structures connect the smallest arteries with the smallest veins?
Capillaries are the structures that connect arteries to veins.
What blood vessels surround the aveoli?
Capillaries The smallest of the blood vessels: capillaries.
What feeds the capillaries?
Arteries "feed" the capillaries while veins drain the capillaries.
Which veins open up into the capillaries?
plmonary veins begin as capillaries and end as capillaries
What are called leaky capillaries found in he one marrow?
Sinusoidal Capillaries
