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Capillaries are considered separately from veins. They are the smallest vessels in the circulatory system. Exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide occur through them. Also wastes and nutrients.
Veins carry deoxygenated blood from systemic circulation back to your heart. Capillaries are the small blood vessels that transfer blood between arteries and veins. The capillaries supply the cells with nutrients, fluids and oxygen. Capillaries also remove carbon dioxide.
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Which veins open up into the capillaries?
plmonary veins begin as capillaries and end as capillaries
Name three blood vessels?
the three blood vessels are the Veins capillaries Arteries the arteries.
What structures connect the smallest arteries with the smallest veins?
Capillaries are the structures that connect arteries to veins.
What are the names of the 3 blood vessles?
Arteries, capillaries, & veins.
What is difference between capillaries and veins?
Capillaries are smaller, thinner and have less surface area than veins. Veins take blood to the heart, and capillaries are the thin tubes that connect the veins and arteries together.
What is the smallest of the three veins capillaries and arteries?
Capillaries. They are the microscopic tubes that connect the veins and the arteries.
What are the three types of blood vesel in the body?
Arteries, veins, capillaries.
What vessels that connect arteries to veins?
Capillaries
What Veins in humans which ends in capillaries and not in larger veins?
Pulmonary veins
What is the blood vessel connecting capillaries to arteries?
Venules, they are smaller and thinner than veins.
What do you call veins and capillaries?
veins, arteries and capillaries are all called blood vessels or blood streams.
Which blood vessel carries blood toward the capillaries?
The veins carry blood toward the capillaries.
