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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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Why are the capillary walls thinnest?

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to allow gas exchange (oxygen and carbon dioxide)

What process moves oxygen from the alveoli to the capillaries?

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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.

Why are capillaries important to cells?

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to provide them energy of some sort

What do your body's cells do with the oxygen they receive?

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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.

What happens as blood passes through the capillaries in the small intestine?

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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.

Are veins connected to the capillaries?

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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

What capillaries surround the tubules of the nephron?

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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.

How do capillaries function?

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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.

How many red blood cells at a time can pass through capillaries?

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One. Capillaries are only one epithelial cell thick

What happens when a body over heats?

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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.

How do capillaries relate to veins and arteries and what happens to the capillaries?

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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.

What fluid leaks out of capillaries?

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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.

What reaction does histamine have on the capillaries?

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They allow capillary walls to open and become leaky.

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

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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

What most important thing happens in the capillaries?

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materials exchange between blood cells and blood

Why does diffusion happen in capillaries?

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

Do the capillaries vary in size?

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i dont knw sorryt6

What four substances are exchanged between the cells and capillaries?

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i KNOW ONLY 2. They are : Carbon dioxide & excretory products