Blood Vessels Vocabulary
Vessels with weakened valves?
What is Vericose Veins.
Largest diameter artery in the body?
What is the aorta
Blood travels away from the heart?
What is Arteries
Smallest diameter of blood vessels where gases and nutrients are exchanged?
what is capillaries
How many times can your blood vessels wrap around the earth?
What is 2.
Vessels that typically carry oxygenated blood?
What is arteries
Vessels that typically carry de-oxygenated blood.
What is Veins.
Blood travels towards the heart?
What is Veins
Transport of oxygen?
What is from capillaries to the cell
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Flaps within certain vessels that allow the blood to flow only in one direction?
What is valves
The innermost layer of veins and arteries?
What is endothelium
Small diameter blood vessel that extends and branches out from artery and leads to capillaries
What is Arteriole
Transport of carbon dioxide
What is from the cell to capillaries.
Blood pressure increases due to....
What is Decreased Volume
The central space inside a vessel?
What is lumen
Arteries that carry oxygen-poor blood?
What is Pulmonary Arteries
Collects blood from capillaries?
What is venule
Fluid surrounding cells?
What is interstitial fluid
What would happen if there were no valves in the veins?
What is blood pooling in the lower extremities
Has characteristics of both capillaries and arteries?
What is Metarterioles
Blood Flow through the Vessels?
Arteries-->Arterioles-->Capillaries-->Capillary Bed-->Capillaries-->Venules-->Veins
Largest veins in the body?
What is the superior and inferior vena cava.
Bind hormones to render them inactive in the circulatory system until they reach their target cell ?
What is transport proteins
What is skeletal muscles