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Blood Vessels & Circulation
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Arteries
Carry blood away from the heart
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Capillaries
Site of exchange with tissues
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Veins
Carry blood toward the heart
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Tunica Intima
4 Layers, most interior
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Tunica media
middle
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Tunica externa (adventitia)
most external
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Metarterioles
Vessels with isolated smooth muscle cells along their walls
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thoroughfare channel
vessels within the capillary network that extend in a direct fashion from metarteriole to venule
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Medium veins
collect blood from small veins and deliver it to large veins
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Large veins
Tunica intima is thin; Tunica media has circularly arranged smooth muscle cells
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most important means of exchange
Diffusion
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hydrostatic pressure
pressure against the walls of the capillary
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osmotic pressure
Blood colloid pressure; interstitial pressure