Blood vessels

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Helps maintain high pressure in the arteries
Small Lumen
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Do not have valves
Arteries
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Has valves
Veins
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What stops the blood from flowing backwards and prevents pooling - mostly in the legs
Valves
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What delivers blood to the capillaries
Arterioles
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Has a larger lumen so blood flows at a lower speed and pressure
Veins
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Blood feeds back from the capillaries to
Venules
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Smallest blood vessel - one cell thick
Capillaries
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Capillaries have very thin cell walls to allow for
diffusion
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Blood in this vessel unloads oxygen and picks up carbon dioxide and latic acid (waste products of metabolism)
Capillaries
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Thick elastic and muscular walls to allow this vessel to contract and relax sending blood to all parts of the body
Artery
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Do not have valves

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Arteries

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Has valves

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Card 4

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What stops the blood from flowing backwards and prevents pooling - mostly in the legs

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What delivers blood to the capillaries

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