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Capillaries

The smallest vessels in the circulatory system that are located within the tissues of the body, they transfer blood from the arteries, through the tissues to drop of nutrients and pick up waste and back to the veins.

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How alveoli are adapted for gaseous exchange by diffusion between air in lungs and blood in capillaries?

1.They are single cell thick

2.Thin film of moisture covering the alveoli allows the oxygen to dissolve in therefore making the process efficient

3. they have a large surface area

4.they are surrounded by network of blood capillaries maintaining the concentration gradient for the gaseous exchange

Why does diffusion happen in capillaries?

Capillaries must allow diffusion too allow for exchange of oxygen. Without oxygen, the eventual consequence would be death.

Does capillaries have a lumen?

Yes, they are very narrow (1 Red Blood Cell in diameter).yes.they have lumen so that erythrocytes can moves through theb,

Blood in the veins is usually what color?

Purple or blue

The blood becomes red when it gets contact with oxygen

this is why when you get blood drawn it looks purple or blue

How do the capillaries work?

Blood is a liquid connective tissue whose main job is transportation of nutrients and wastes. An analogy would be streets and highways with the roads being the blood vessels and the cars, trucks, and motorcycles being the blood. In this model, the driveways would be the capillaries and the houses and buildings would be the cells in the body.

What does a vein look like?

They look like little checker pieces that are red and blue and sometimes white.

What are broken capillaries?

Broken capillaries are commonly found on the cheeks or nose area these appear as small red / pink threads under the skins surface, most. Broken capillaries occur when the capillary walls narrow and widen too quickly causing the muscles int he walls to tear. This in turn allows the blood to seep out resulting in broken capillaries.

Dehydrated, dry and sensitive skins often have thin skin that provides less protection and therefore, these skin types are the most commonly effected.

Common causesof broken capillaries are:

1. Hot conditions

2. Wind blowing on the face

3. Burnign i.e. sunburn

4. Moving from one extreme temperature to another

5. Pressure i.e. squeezing spots or glasses pressing on the face

Broken capillaries can be prevented by avoiding all of the above. Once formed they can be treated by a specialist form of electrolysis. There are also specialist creams on the market that aim to strengthen the capillary walls thus reducing the redness.

Why artery can be considered as an organ not capillary?

Artery is not an organ it is a means to carry pure blood from the heart to different organs.

Arteries when approach near any organ it divides into arterioles.

When arterioles enter the organ it again divides as blood capillaries.

Are The smallest of the arteries are called capillaries?

Blood flows from the heart and aorta into large vessels called arteries, these arteries decrease in size as they move into tissues and are then called arterioles with just a few layers of cells. Arterioles then become capillaries that have a single cell layer. Capillaries then empty into venules, which then enter veins and return blood back to the heart to start the process over again!

Do arteries carry blood from capillaries to the heart?

Arterioles carry blood in the direction away from the heart. The order of vessels from the heart is: arteries>arterioles>capillaries>venules>veins.

How does the diameter of arteries veins and capillaries compare in size?

Arteries and veins are both in the same size range

(which goes from more than an inch across to too small to be seen).

Capillaries run about 4 microns - or half the diameter of a red blood cell

(which must fold in order to get through them - thus the significance of sickle cell disease).

What is the normal value for a pulmonary wedge pressure?

Since there are no valves between the pulmonary capillaries and the left atrium, PCWP is a reflection of the LAP. During diastole, when mitral valve is open, the PCWP reflects LVEDP. LVEDP is an index of left ventricular end-diastolic volume. Here is a helpful URL to further clarify this entry. http://medind.nic.in/iad/t02/i4/iadt02i4p298.pdf

Is blood pressure higher in capillaries in arteries?

Arteries, becuase they are directly pumped by the heart while veins are pumped some by your heart and some by muscle movement.

Arteries have thicker walls as well to cope with the greater pressure.

How does gas exchange occurs within?

gaseous exchange takes place when the volume of the chest cavity is increased or decreased.

Growth of a new capillary supply into the region produces granulation tissue?

Yes it is true that the growth of a new capillary supply into the region produces granulation tissue. Phagocytes are non bony debris at the fracture site is removed by osteoclasts.