Capillaries

· Although similar to blood capillaries, lymphatic capillaries differ structurally in the following ways:

· The endothelial cells forming the walls of lymphatic capillaries are not tightly joined. Their edges loosely overlap one another, forming flaplike minivalves. The flaps, anchored by fine collagen fibers to surrounding structures, gape open when the fluid pressure is high in the interstitial space, allowing it to enter the lymphatic capillary.

· Bundles of fine filaments anchor the endothelial cells to surrounding structures so that any increase in interstitial fluid volume separates the cell flaps, exposing gaps in the wall rather than causing the lymphatic capillary to collapse.

In older pediatric patients 2-4 seconds can be considered "normal," but factors such as respiratory status and ambient temperature need to be considered in relation to these times as well. In neonates, because capillaries of the head and/or chest are sometimes used for assessment, different values appear in the literature. An upper limit of 3 seconds is a general guideline, but averages of roughly 2 seconds are considered "normal."

Although you may use water to help get sticky substances such as syrup off your hands, water itself is actually sticky. Water molecules not only stick to each other, but water also sticks to grass, cloth, organic tissues, soil, and paper towels. Plants take advantage of water's stickiness to organic tissues and soil. This movement occurs when the adhesion (the force that attracts the water to other objects) is stronger than the cohesion (the force between the water molecules). Water molecules are naturally attracted to each other. This attraction comes from the temporary hydrogen bonds that they form.

That would be the heart. The pulmonary vein carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart's left ventricle, it then travels through the left atrium and out the aorta into the arteries and then the arterioles. It then enters the capillaries, here the oxygen diffuses into the cells of the body, and carbon dioxide diffused into the capillaries and bloodstream. The blood then continues to the veinoles, veins and back into the heart through the inferior or superior vena cava, into the right ventricle, right atrium and out through the pulmonary artery to collect oxygen from the lungs again. So starting from the beginning, the diagram of blood flow is as follows:

Lungs - pulmonary vein - left ventricle - left atrium - aorta - arteries - arterioles - capillaries - veinoles - veins - superior/inferior vena cava - right ventricle - right atrium - pulmonary artery. And the cycle continues :)

A human hair has an average diameter of 70 mikrometers and a capillary has an average diameter of 7 mikrometers, so that tells us that 1 hair takes about 10 capillaries in width.

You probably have a deviated spetum bleed often caused my using massive amounts of Cocaine.

Whoever wrote the above answer obviously isn't a doctor because I have never used Cocaine a day in my life and I sneezed a small amount of blood this morning.

Capillary refill assesses peripheral blood flow and circulatory status by measuring the time it takes for color to return to the nail bed after pressure is applied. Typically, a healthy capillary refill time is less than 2 seconds in adults. Prolonged refill times may indicate poor circulation, dehydration, or shock. This quick assessment is often performed in emergency settings to evaluate a patient's hemodynamic stability.

Yes, because as you get older your heart also gets older and can't function as well.

CO2 and O2

The purpose of a Capillary Tube is to

allow blood to complete a path between arteries and veins

permit oxygen and nutrients to be absorbed by cells

and provide a means for cell wastes to enter the blood stream

Diffusion due to differences in air pressures.

to allow gas exchange (oxygen and carbon dioxide)

The process is usually referred to as diffusion. This happens when concentrations in different areas interchange to give a more even mixture. Going through a membrane ( in this case the lung's alveoli wall ) would more properly require the process to be called osmosis, but that term is not usually used medically.

to provide them energy of some sort

The oxygen diffuses into the Red Blood Cells (RBCs) in the lungs. The blood goes to the heart and is pumped to the rest of the body. When the blood reaches oxygen deprived tissues, the oxygen moves from the RBCs to the tissues.

Probably what happens in every other part of the body, due to osmosis and dispersion, the oxogen goes out of the blood and nourishes the cells. Meanwhile the Carbon dioxide attaches to the hemoglobin and is carried back to the lung to be exhaled.

In order, your blood follows this general path as it is traveling from arteries to veins:

1. Conducting arteries (aorta)

2. Muscular arteries

3. Arterioles

4. Capillaries

5. Venules

6. Veins

Although ultra filtration in the kidney filters wastes such as nitrogenous waste products in the glomerulus from the blood, it also filters nutrients such as glucose and amino acids. Hence, the loop is surrounded by blood capillaries so that previously ultra filtrated nutrients such as amino acids, glucose, and other nutrients can now be reabsorbed back into the bloodstream by diffusion and active transport and not travel down the further kidney tubules which lead to the bladder and later be expelled in the form of urine.

Capillaries are tiny blood vessels which allow only very few blood cells to get through at a time. When blood cells enter the capillaries, the oxygen and nutrients which are stored in hemoglobin in the blood diffuse into the body. The exhausted blood cells then enter back into larger vessels to join the bloodstream once again. The cycle goes something like this:

Heart pumps blood --> blood cells pick up oxygen in alveoli in the lungs --> the heart pumps fresh blood through arteries to the body --> the arteries narrow down into capillaries in which aforementioned diffusion takes place --> capillaries grow back into veins which carry blood back to the heart and, ultimately, the lungs --> the process repeats.

Many people confuse veins with arteries. A vein is defined as a blood vessel which carried blood to the heart. MOST veins carry de-oxygenated blood; but not all. Once the depleted blood has passed through the heart, it goes to the lungs where it then goes back to the heart. The only vein which carries oxygenated blood in the one connecting the lungs and the heart. The same is inversely true for arteries; arteries carry blood away from the heart. MOST of this blood is full of oxygen; except for the blood in the artery going FROM the heart TO the lungs. This can be more easily understood by examining a diagram which I cannot attach with this answer.

You may be asking "Why does it look like my blood vessels are blue when I bleed red?" The blue vessels you are seeing are oxygen-depleted veins. When the protein, hemoglobin, is full of oxygen, it colors the blood cell red. So, the arteries in your body are red, because they are full of oxygen. As soon as your skin is broken, your blood cells are exposed to oxygen, thus causing them to instantly turn red. This is not perceptible to the human eye.

Capillary action is important for moving water (and all of the things that are dissolved in it) around. It is defined as the movement of water within the spaces of a porous material due to the forces of adhesion, cohesion, and surface tension.Plants and trees couldn't thrive without capillary action. The roots are capable of carrying water from the soil up into the plant.

One. Capillaries are only one epithelial cell thick

Your body overheats anytime heat (like heaters, the sun, fans, etc.) touches your skin. Remember that skin is a nerve. Whenever your skin is warm or hot. YOU are hot. That's why we sweat or else we will way overheat and we will die.

If you imagine your right arm as an artery and your left arm as a vein, then clasp your fingers together gently and imagine this is a capillary bed. Arterioles and venules come together in capillary beds and as oxygen is exchanged to surrounding tissue the blood from arteries is passed through the arterioles, through the venules and into the veins to return to the heart.

Check out the Wikipedia article in the related links, and look at the image on the right.

go to the body cells, after that it returns to the capillaries, but the fluid that doesn't diffuses into the lymph vessels (when it goes into the lymphatic vessels it's called lymph) and goes back to the heart.

They allow capillary walls to open and become leaky.