Yes, they are the super highways for everything going through the body... well maybe small highways, because the arteries are the super highways.
In the case of animals, these exchanges occur in the capillaries.
There is an exchange with oxygen, nutrients, and carbon dioxide and water vapor.
Capillaries have slow flow. This slow speed maximizes opportunities of diffusion of oxygen, nutrients, and wastes.
The capillaries are the site of diffusion of wastes, oxygen, and nutrients. This allows these materials to enter and leave body tissues.
Arteries to arterioles to capillaries where exchange occurs. Oxygen and nutrients are exchanged for carbon dioxide and wastes.
As blood flows through capillaries, it exchanges nutrients, wastes, and oxygen with body tissues. This transfer is accomplished via diffusion.
Capillaries are the site of diffusion of materials between the body tissues and the blood stream. These materials include nutrients, oxygen, and wastes.
The capillaries are the site in the circulatory system where nutrients enter and wastes leave the tissues. The thin walls of the capillaries facilitate this diffusion.
Capillaries
The function of the capillaries in the circulatory system is to allow diffusion of wastes, oxygen, and nutrients to the tissues. The rest of the circulatory system is designed to move the blood to the capillaries so they can perform this function.
The capillaries found in the alveoli, nephrons, and vili are thin-walled and narrow. This size and construction makes it easier for nutrients, oxygen, and wastes to diffuse from body tissues.
Wherever capillaries are found, these are places where nutrients and wastes are exchanged.