explain the blood vessels
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Function------Blood vessels function to transport blood.
Answer :
Blood Vessels :
Blood moves around the body in special tubes called blood vessels .
They are hollow tubes
There are three types
1] Arteries
2] Veins
3] Capillaries
1] Arteries
Arteries carry blood from heart to organ of body.
Carry oxygenated blood .Exception : Pulmonary artery carry deoxygenated blood {From heart to lungs}
Walls are thick and elastic { Blood pressure is high } and valve absent
Arteries are three layered .their smaller branches are called arterious.
deeply situated
2] Veins :
Transport blood towards heart from organs
Carry deoxegenated blood except – Pulmonary vein
Walls are thin and less – elastic and blood pressure is low
Value present and their branches called vevules
Not deeply situated
3] Capillaries :
Thin fibre like structure and single layered
Carry both oxygenated and deoxegenated blood
Help in exchange of gases in respiration process
wall are thin