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What is the muscular pump that moves blood thought a series of tubes called blood vessels?

your heart.


Series of vessels?

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What are the smallest blood vessels called?

The smallest blood vessels are called capillaries.


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Vessels that carry blood to the heart are called?

Veins. Vessels that carry it from the heart are called arteries.


What do humans have in which moves blood constintaly through a series of vessels?

A heart.


The circulatory system consists of a series of vessels called?

arteries, veins, and capillaries. Arteries carry oxygenated blood away from the heart, veins return deoxygenated blood back to the heart, and capillaries are tiny blood vessels that connect arteries and veins.


What are blood vessels called?

Capillaries


The smallest blood vessels in your body are called?

They are called capillaries.


True or false blood vessels that carry blood to the heart are called arteries?

False. Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart are called arteries. Blood vessels that carry blood to the heart are called veins.