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Why is it possible for diffusion to take place at the capillaries and not in the arteries and veins?
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∙ 11y ago
liquid can leak in and out of capillaries, and arteries and veins have such thick walls, and their jobs are just to bring blood to and from the heart. NO need for diffusion in these.
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∙ 11y ago
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Microscopic vessels that carry blood from small arteries to small veins are?
Capillaries are the microscopic blood vessels that connect small arteries to small veins. Blood exchange takes place in capillaries.
Where is a good place to take a pulse?
On the underside of your wrist, or on the carotid arteries of the neck.
Why is the strcture of arteries different from veins?
This is because arteries have more force going through them than veins do. Arteries have a higher level of pressure as opposed to veins who are more relaxed and just have blood being pushed along through them rather than FORCED. If you put a vein in place of an artery, it would probably just burst.
When the right contracts where is blood pushed to?
when the right ventricle contracts it is pushed to the blood to the pulmunery arteries and to the capilaries of the lungs whee exchange of gases tkes place
Where are gases exchanged in the heart?
As with most organs in the human body, gaseous exchange in the heart takes place via the capillaries, tiny blood vessels that release oxygen from the lungs into body tissue and receive carbon dioxide to transport back to the lungs.
What are the two main types of blood vessels?
Arteries and Veins. Arteries carry blood away from the body and veins bring it back. There are also Capillaries which link the two together.
Microscopic vessels that carry blood from small arteries to small veins are?
Capillaries are the microscopic blood vessels that connect small arteries to small veins. Blood exchange takes place in capillaries.
How does the exchange of the oxygen with waste and carbon dioxide takes place in the capillaries?
Exchange takes place by diffusion .
What are tiny vessels which diffusion takes place between the blood and the body tissues?
The capillaries. Check Wiki for "Capillary action".
What are the tiny vessels through which diffusion takes place between the blood and the body tissues?
The capillaries. Check Wiki for "Capillary action".
Tiny vessels through which diffusion takes place between the blood and the body tisues?
Capillaries
Tiny vassels through which diffusion takes place between the blood and the body tissues?
capillaries
How does the exchange of nutrients and oxygen with waste and cardon dioxide take place in the capillaries?
Its all diffusion.
Does the diffusion of respiratory gases take place at the membranes between the alveolar ducts and lymphatic capillaries?
no
Is a pulse mostly found in a vein?
Veins don't have pulses, arteries have pulses. Arteries are blood supply tubes, veins are blood return tubes. Between the arteries and the veins blood passes through tiny tubes called capillaries. The pressure changes that cause the pulse can't pass through these tiny tubes.
Tiny vessels through which diffusion takes place between the blood and the tissues?
Those would be capillaries.
Are capillaries one cell thick?
They are one cell thick to allow diffusion of gases to take place
