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The thickest walled vessels are arteries, as they have to endure a more forceful power, as the heart, pumps the blood with great force around the body.
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Thin-walled blood vessels less elastic than arteries?
aorta
Why do arteries have the thickest walls?
Blood vessels are composed of three layers of tissue: tunica externa, tunica media, and tunica interna. The middle layer, tunica media, is composed of smooth muscle and is thickest in arteries because they need to accommodate the higher pressures created by the heart's pumping action which distributes blood throughout the body.
What is the thickest part of a camera lens?
It depends whether it's a concave or convex lens. If it's a convex lens - the thickest part is at the centre. With a concave lens, the thickest part is around the edge.
Is the troposhere the thickest or is it the stratoshere?
stratosphere
Does the properties of artery are the same with pulmonary artery?
arteries are thick walled blood vessels carring oxygenated blood from heart to the various parts of the body.pulmonary arteries act as veins and carry deoxegenated blood from the right auricle to the lungs,Thus it is different from the arteries
What is the thick walled blood vessels?
veins
Are the veins the strongest and thickest of the blood vessels?
The veins are neither strong nor thick of the blood vessels. On the contrary the veins are thin and thin walled. The arteries are strong and thick. They have to bear the pressure of the blood that comes from the heart.
What happens to blood when it is pumped into the thin-walled blood vessels of the lungs?
When blood is pumped into the thin-walled blood vessels of the lungs, carbon dioxide is replaced with oxygen.
What happens to blood when it is pumped into the thin walled blood vessels of the lungs?
When blood is pumped into the thin-walled blood vessels of the lungs, carbon dioxide is replaced with oxygen.
What are the different blood vessels?
arteries thick walled and elastic blood vessels capillaries and veins
These thick-walled blood vessels carry oxygenated blood to the cells in your body?
A
Thin-walled blood vessels less elastic than arteries?
aorta
What is the thick-walled blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart?
arteries
These thick-walled blood vessels carry oxygenated blood to cells in your body?
A
What are the three different types of vessels?
arteries thick walled and elastic blood vessels capillaries and veins
What is a lymphatic vessel?
In anatomy, lymph vessels are thin walled, valved structures that carry lymph.
Are capillaries the thickest blood vessels?
idk? O_O thats wat i want to know too :P
