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Capillaries send blood to both arteries and veins.
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What type of blood vessel lets gases?
capillary
What word means the smallest type of blood vessel in the body?
capillary
What do you call a tiny vessel in the Circulatory system?
The smallest type of blood vessel is the capillary. Its walls are one cell thick and permeable, for substances to transfer out of the capillary and into the cells (and vice versa).
Lumen is the size of red blood cells?
The lumen is the size of the inside of the blood vessel. The type of blood vessel that has a lumen approximately the same diameter as a single red blood cell is a capillary.
To what type of vessel does a capillary transport blood?
Capillaries are extremely small blood vessels. The capillaries transport blood from the arteries to the veins in the human body.
What is the Medical term meaning tubes that carry the blood?
It's called blood vessel. it can be of following type viz Artery, Vein, Arteriole, Venule, Capillary.
What general type of blood vessel that transports blood from one capillary to another capillary?
From the heart the blood moves through the Artirioles, through the systemic capillaries, through the precapillary sphincters to the Venules, and back to the heart. Otherwise they are generally just called capillaries
What is the most common type of blood capillary?
Continuous Capillary :)
What type of blood is used for microhematocrit test?
capillary blood
What type of blood is used for a microhematocrit test?
capillary blood
What type of blood is the most common for laboratory test?
venous blood
Which type of blood vessel drains blood from tissues and returns it to the heart?
Veins are the type of blood vessel that drains blood from tissues and returns it to the heart.
