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What is the amount of muscle in veins and arteries?
The amount of muscle in veins and arteries varies in the sense that arteries are more muscular than veins to give them extra elasticity and strength to deal with surges of blood.
What is the difference between muscle in veins and arteries?
Thee difference between muscle in veins and arteries is that muscles of arteries are thicker compared to those of veins.
Name three blood vessels?
the three blood vessels are the Veins capillaries Arteries the arteries.
Which of the following is a difference between arteries and veins?
artery walls have more elastic tissue and smooth muscle than veins,
What type of muscle is found in veins and arteries?
Smooth
Are the veins and arteries covered by striated muscle?
yes
Smooth muscle fibers in arteries and veins are found in?
tunica media
Do arteries feed the veins?
Hmm; in a sense, yes. A more complete understanding would have arteries feeding capillaries, which feed the muscle or organ fresh blood, which is returned to the circulatory system by veins. Arteries carry oxygenated blood; veins return the now oxygen-depleted blood to the lungs, then heart, and back to the arteries, in brief.
Contrast the structure of veins and arteries for thickness of muscle and elastic tissue?
The more pressure it uses, the thicker the walls will be. Veins have very low pressure which means they have thin walls and vice/versa for arteries which have a higher pressure and thicker walls than veins.
What are the Coronary arteries and veins for?
the coronary arteries feed oxygenated blood to the heart muscle where as the coronary veins take the deoxygenated blood back the heart.
What is the lining of arteries and veins made of that helps them propel blood?
smooth muscle
What contains more oxygen veins or arteries and why?
arteries is the oxygenated
