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Blood Vessels
Blood vessels are the part of the circulatory system that carries the blood throughout the body. The types of blood vessels are arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venules, and veins.
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What are the three kinds of blood vessels define each?
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Arteries are blood vessels that direct blood away from the heart.
Capillaries are the smallest blood vessels in your body.
Veins are blood vessels that direct the blood back to the heart.
An opening or passage in bones where blood vessels and nerves enter and leave is a?
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foramen
What is the blood vessel that connect arteries and nerves?
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you've got it all wrong. nerves and blood vessels are part of different systems. Nerves are part of the nervous system that includes the brain. And Blood vessels are part of the circulatory system that includes the heart. But these ARE associated because blood delivers oxygen to the brain.
Which blood vessels uses elasticity to push blood further along the bloodstream?
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michael jackson
Which type of blood vessels does the blood flow away from the heart in?
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Blood flows away from the heart in arteries, and towards the heart in veins.
Is it true that cardiovascular diseases are diseases of the heart or blood vessels?
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No, Cardiovascular disease relates to disorders of the heart, and blood vessels but not lungs.
What is the medical term meaning growth and development of blood vessels?
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The term for new formation of blood vessels is angiogenesis.
Major organs in the circulatory system?
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and the veins and the google
Geeves would like to suggest that there are three essential aspects to the circulatory system: Heart, lungs, and brain. Without any one of these organs the circulatory system would cease to function.
Is systemic veins considered capacitance vessels?
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yes - it means that they store/hold a lot of blood.
Which is more likely to occur a change in blood vessel radius or a change in blood vessel length?
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Use the analogy of a hose. When the pressure is high a small bore hose will act to limit the flow but at a lower pressure the radius is hardly a factor. So arteries which have a much higher pressure are more affected by radius than lower pressure than the low pressure venous system.
Term for blockage of a blood vessel by a foreign object circulating the blood?
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embolism is the sudden blockage of a blood vessel by an embolus.
Which blood vessel carries blood toward the capillaries?
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The veins carry blood toward the capillaries.
Which blood vessel allows blood from the digestive system to be sent directly to the liver?
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The digestive tract and the liver are connected by the hepatic portal vein. This allows nutrients to pass from the digestive tract to the liver for processing.
What are the different types of blood vessels and cells?
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the three types of blood vessels are the arteries, veins, and capillaries.
*Arteries are the vessels that carry blood away from your heart to the different parts of your body
*Veins carries non-oxygenated blood to the heart
*Capillary tubes with very thin walls which join arteries to veins
What is the medical term meaning X-ray record of the blood vessels?
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Angiogram
Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA)
Angiocardiography
An angiogram is an x-ray record of blood vessels after injecting contrast dye. The process of getting an angiogram is angiography.
What Foods cause blood vessels to constrict?
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Hot peppers
Garlic
Dark chocolate
Fish oils
What is the blood vessel which carries from intestine to the liver?
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The liver is the end of the hepatic portal system, which involves a series of veins that stretch from various organs of the gastrointestinal tract. Most of this material is either absorbed water, chyle, or other digested materials, including sugar. The hepatic portal vein is the final vein before these materials from the GI tract enter the liver.
What condition is caused by the extreme leaking or rupture of a blood vessel in the brain?
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This is a stroke - and today there are 10 levels of a stroke - starting with 3 levers of a TIA (transient ischemic attack). TIA's never leave permenant damage. There are 4 levels of a TIA - and 6 levels of a stroke - from mild to a level 10 stroke in which you are dead before you hit the ground (a major blood vein has burst in your brain).
Do you have blood in your eyes?
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There are a few blood vessels that are in the sclera, or white part of our eye, but most of the blood vessels are found in the retina in the inside back of our eye. Blood is not not normally inside the eye itself or it would interfere with the passage of light through the eye.
What is the indented region where blood vessels and nerves join a lymph node is called?
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This is called a hilum.
What does having veins on your arms mean?
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as long as ur blood pressure isn't too high, i would say it is a pump from working out, you added some muscle lost some fat. And BAM a vein , good job go for more!!! more than likely you didnt directly work ur arms but indirectly like chest or back. check bp at walmart bp chair.
