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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.
1,213 Questions
Structure of the pulmonary capillaries?
They have a thin basement membrane and an endothelial layer. The space between capillaries and gas in alveoli is very little.
What happens if a leech sucks blood out of you?
It lowers your blood pressure and it improves your blood circulation (it thins out blood).
What are the examples of Capillary Rise?
The plant cells away from the sun grow faster than those on the sunny side causing the plant stem to bend toward the sun.
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Why does exercise increase the number of capillaries in your body?
The body will increase capillaries in order to get blood to where it is needed faster. This helps get extra oxygen to the muscles.
How is the anatomy of capillaries and capillary beds well suited for their function?
The capillaries have the thinnest walls of any of the blood vessels. The capillary wall is made up of a single layer of endothelium lying on a delicate basement membrane. The thin capillary wall enables water and dissolved substances, including oxygen, to diffuse from the blood into the tissue spaces, where they become available for use by the cells. The capillary also allows waste from the metabolizing cell to diffuse from the tissue spaces into the capillaries for transport by the blood to the organs of excretion. The capillaries are called exchange vessels because they allow for an exchange of nutrients and waste.
A vessel that carries blood from capillaries to a vein?
The capillaries flow from an artery to a vein.
Why can you see some of your veins and arteries through your skin?
Because skin is not very thick and blood vessels near the surface show through. They also raise the skin so you will be able to see where they are even if there was no change in colour.
Newly formed carbon dioxide is transported from the tissue cells to the lungs by the way of plasma and red blood cells. In the plasma, the carbamino compound, bicarbonate and dissolved CO2 are the main ways that carbon dioxide is transported in the plasma. The carbamino compound makes up about 1% of the CO2 dissolved in the plasma and chemically binds with amino proteins. The bicarbonate makes about 5% of the CO2 dissolved in the plasma and combines with water, a process known as hydrolysis. The hydrolysis of CO2 and water forms carbonic acid (H2CO3), which ionizes into HCO3- and H+ ions. The dissolve carbon dioxide accounts for about 5% of the total CO2 released at the lungs. This is the portion of CO2 in the venous blood that is measured to assess the patients partial pressure of CO2 (Pco2). In the red blood cells the main ways carbon dioxide is transported through the body is by dissolved CO2, carbamino-Hb and bicarbonate. The dissolve carbon dioxide accounts for about 5% of the total CO2 released at the lungs. 21% of the carbon dioxide combines with hemoglobin to form a compound called carbamino-Hb. 63% of the carbon dioxide is transported from the tissue cells to the lungs in the form of bicarbonate (HCO3-). As the venous blood enters into the alveolar capillaries, chemical reactions are reversed. The bicarbonate is transformed back in to carbon dioxide and eliminated in the alveoli. The saturation of hemoglobin with oxygen determines the amount of carbon dioxide content. When blood is saturated with oxygen, it reduces the ability for it to carry carbon dioxide, and when the blood is deoxygenated increases the ability to carry carbon dioxide, this is known as the Haldane Effect. For example, if the hemoglobin was 75% saturated with oxygen, it will be 25% saturated with carbon dioxide. Another factor that can influence the uptake and release of oxygen and carbon dioxide would be an acid-base balance disturbance. The normal bicarbonate (HCO3-) to carbonic acid (H2CO3) ratio in the blood plasma is 20:1. This ratio of 20:1 is very important in maintaining a normal pH level. If this ratio was to change, the amount of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood would also change. Something like alveolar hypoventilation would cause the carbon dioxide levels to increase and that oxygen levels to decrease.
Does inhaled air is warmed by mucous membrane capillaries as it passes through the nasal cavities?
Yes
How does nicotine affect blood flow to capillaries?
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How do lymph enter the lymphatic capillaries?
they enter by flowing threw your funny bone and then flying into outer space and then they get smaller when they reach your dog and enter the capllaries
Why does capillary have thin walls?
The capillary walls are the thinnest blood vessels to allow the exchange of materials.
Capillary walls only have a single layer of endothelial cells (the flattened layer of cells that line the closed spaces in the body). This is unlike the arteries and veins which have multiple layers such as smooth muscle, elastin, and connective tissues. The thin walls allow for oxygen and waste products (such as carbon dioxide) to diffuse between the tissues and blood.
Why is the blood pressure lower in lung capillaries than body capillaries?
Because if blood pressure in lung capillaries was as high as it is in body capillaries, the hydrostatic pressure caused by this blood pressure would force blood plasma out of the capillaries into intracellular spaces (as is done in body capillaries) or into the alveoli. This would reduce the efficiency of gas exchange.
What the hypothesis for the capillary action?
Capillary action will pull water up the stem to the flower and into the petals.
What functional advantage does simple squamous epithelium tissue type provide to the capillary?
A simple squamous epithelium enables capillaries to allow small molecules such as nutrients to pass from the blood into the body. Waste products and oxygen are also easily exchanged this way.
