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What are the three types of blood vessels?
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-arteries
-capillaries
-veins
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What is the endothelium?
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Single cell inner lining of simple squamous epithelium in all blood vessels, including the heart
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What is the term for single cell inner lining of simple squamous epithelium in all blood vessels, including the heart?
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Endothelium
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Where are possible places that blood is forced into during ventricular systole?
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-large arteries
-pulmonary arterires
-aorta-->med sized arteries-->smaller arteries-->arterioles
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With each branching of blood vessels, do the arterial walls become thinner or thicker?
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Thinner
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Why do the branching arterioles gradually lose the vessel wall?
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To become microsopic capillaries that lie adjacent to cells
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True or false: Capillaries are endothelium
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True
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O2 and nutrients leave the blood through the __ to enter tissue cells
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Capillaries
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CO2 and other wastes leave the tissue cells to enter the __.
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Capillary blood
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What happens when capillaries leave the tissue?
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1. their vessel walls increase to form venules
2. larger veins that empty into great veins return blood to heart
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True or false: Capillaries are not microscopic.
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False
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True or false: Capilliaries are microscopic.
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True
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True or false: Capillaries are not considered as epithelium.
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False
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What type of blood vessels are the surface vessels of the body?
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Veins
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What type of blood vessels are the deeper vessels of the body?
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Arteries
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