BIOLOGY 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Capillary, Arteriole, Circulatory System

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Vascular system: system of tubes that carries blood to and from the heart. Arteries branching blood vessels that carry blood from the heart. Thick, elastic walls that balloon out as contraction of the ventricles causes a mass of blood to flow into the system then snap back to resting size once the blood passes by. Pulse: wave of blood; can measure your heart rate by pulse as it passes through an artery close to the surface of the skin. Veins converging vessels that bring it back. Pressure of the blood is much lower once it reaches veins. Movement of blood from the veins back to the heart is facilitated by the contraction of skeletal muscles compress the veins and squeeze the blood through them. Blood flows in only one direction, toward the heart, due to the presence of one-way valves within the veins.

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