answersLogoWhite

0

Capillaries are tiny thin-walled blood vessels that connect the smallest arteries and veins and allow the exchange of nutrients and waste between the blood and tissues. Oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged between the circulatory and respiratory systems; oxygen diffuses from the lungs into the bloodstream and is transported by erythrocytes (red blood cells) throughout the body. Carbon dioxide diffuses out of the blood into the alveoli and goes the reverse direction through the respiratory system and out the nose.

User Avatar

Wiki User

15y ago

What else can I help you with?

Related Questions

Oxygen passes into the capillaries that surround these sac?

Oxygen passes into the capillaries that surround the alveoli. The thin walls of the capillaries make this diffusion easier.


What takes place between the alveoli and capillaries in the lungs?

When you inhale, air fills the alveoli and oxygen passes from the alveoli through a semipermeable membrane and into the capillaries, leading into the bloodstream. During the same process, carbon dioxide is outgassed from the blood to the alveoli When you inhale, air fills the alveoli and oxygen passes from the alveoli through a semipermeable membrane and into the capillaries, leading into the bloodstream. During theWhen you inhale, air fills the alveoli and oxygen passes from the alveoli through a semipermeable membrane and into the capillaries, leading into the bloodstream. During the same process, carbon dioxide is outgassed from the blood to the alveWhen you inhale, air fills the alveoli and oxygen passes from the alveoli through a semipermeable membrane and into the capillaries, leading into the bloodstream. During the same process, carbon dioxide is outgassed from the blood to the alveoli foli same process, carbon dioxide is outgassed from the blood to the alveoli


What is the body organ which oxygen passes through to capillaries?

The alveoli and capillaries in the lungs pass oxygen to the blood. Both have very thin walls, which allow the oxygen to pass from the alveoli to the blood. The capillaries then connect to larger blood vessels, called veins, which bring the oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart.


The inhaled oxygen passes into the alveoli and then diffuses through the capillaries into the?

aerteries


What are alveoli surrounded by?

the blood surround Alveoli in order to gas exchange between the Alveoli and red blood cell.


How do you measure grams with out scales?

In the alveoli of the lungs, where it passes into the blood capillaries which surround them.


Does carbon dioxide pass into the blood?

Carbon dioxide passes into the blood at the capillaries of the systemic circulation. Then it is released at capillaries around the alveoli.


What is the name of the tiny blood vessels that surround the alveoli in the lungs?

These are called the alveoli capillaries.


Which substances are exchanged between the blood in the capillaries and the air in the alveoli?

Oxygen is exchanged from the air in the alveoli into the blood in the capillaries, while carbon dioxide is exchanged from the blood in the capillaries into the air in the alveoli during the process of respiration.


How are oxygen and carbon dioxide exchanged between the alveoli and the capillaries?

Oxygen diffuses from the alveoli into the capillaries, where it binds to hemoglobin in red blood cells for transport to tissues. Carbon dioxide diffuses from the capillaries into the alveoli and is exhaled from the body.


O2 enters the capillaries and ----- from the capillaries passes in to the lungs?

Carbon dioxide is produced as a waste product of respiration, and is taken in the bloodstream to the capillaries outside the lungs, where the CO2 diffuses into the alveoli of the lungs.


Does the carbon dioxide travels into capillaries alveolar and out of the capillaries at the tissue?

In the alveoli