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How deep are the arteries in your wrist Am I seeing the veins or the arteries when I look at my wrist How deep would I have to cut to hit an artery?
The Related Links section has a link to a website that has a diagram of the arm.
The bluish blood vessels visible when you look at your wrist are veins. The arteries are deeper and not located particularly near the veins. Gray's Anatomy has a transverse section of the wrist; if you look at it you'll see you'd have to cut fairly deeply to hit one of the arteries, and the other is buried behind a ligament.
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What arteries supply the kidney?
Your renal arteries supply the kidneys with blood while the renal veins take it away back to the heart.
What condition would you have to need to undergo coronary artery surgery?
You will need coronary artery bypass surgery if you suffer from coronary artery disease. The procedure works by relieve angina and by grafting arteries and veins to the coronary arteries.
Which blood vessels is blood pressure the highest?
The arteries, which are strong, flexible, and resilient, carry blood away from the heart and bear the highest blood pressures THE AORTA...IT THE FIRST "MAJOR" ARTERY THAT LEAVES THE HEART. 2nd would be the Pulmonary Veins (reversed arteries-veins) in the Respiratory system.
What is the largest a vein or artery in the human body?
For veins the longest is The great saphenous vein. For arteries width wise it would be the aorta but length it's the the superficial femoral artery.
Is a aorta a blood vessel?
The aorta is the largest artery in the human body. It is usually medically divided by anatomical division or by direction of blood flow. Thus, there is the abdominal aorta or the ascending aorta, which can refer to the same artery.
What are the three major vessels of blood circulation?
The main organ would be the Heart. Other major organs are the veins and arteries. Lungs are also a part of the blood circulatory system.
What do you call the blood vessels that take the blood away from the heart?
all arteries except the pulmonary artery carry blood away from the heart
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.
If you fell on a sharp rock and it cut your left thigh. Would it cut your artery or a vein?
We have arteries in both our thighs. We also have veins on either sides so it depends on the injury
How long are your arteries?
Your arteries carry blood from the heart to all corners of the body. The aorta is the main artery leaving the heart, with well known branches like the carotid artery (to the head), the femoral arteries (to the legs), the brachial ateries (to the arms). The other main artery from the heart is the pulmonary artery which goes to the lungs to get oxygen.
TYpe of blood vessels delivers oxygen-rich blood from the heart?
The arteries carry oxygen-rich blood away from the heart and to the rest of the body. Veins carry oxygen-poor blood back to the heart to be oxidized.
What are the organs that work together in the circulatory system?
even though the arteries and veins aren't organs,they would be the heart,veins,and the arteries.
