BPK 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Thoracic Cavity, Blood Vessel, Pulse Pressure

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Arteries blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart. Going from large arteries to medium-sized arteries to small arteries to arterioles, there is less elastic tissue in the wall of the artery and more smooth muscle. Arterioles arteries under 0. 5 mm in diameter. By constricting or relaxing the thick layer of smooth muscle in the walls of arterioles, blood ow can be increased or decreased to various capillaries. Arteries and arterioles constitute the high pressure part of the circulatory system. Capillaries - very tiny (10 microns diameter), thin-walled vessels. This is the site of exchange of nutrients and gases between the blood and tissues. All other organs of the circulatory system exist only to serve the capillary beds. Venules small vessels which conduct venous blood from capillaries to veins. Veins vessels that convey blood toward the heart. Veins are generally of greater diameter, but thinner-walled than the arteries with which they travel.

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