ANATOMY
CHEST AND CARDIOVASCULAR
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Question
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Blood vessels that branch from arteries and control blood pressure are ____
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venules
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veins
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arterioles
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capillaries
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Arterioles, small blood vessels that carry blood away from your heart, are connectors between your arteries and capillaries. They control your blood pressure and blood flow throughout your body, using their muscles to change their diameter.
Detailed explanation-2: -Blood is pumped from the ventricles into large elastic arteries that branch repeatedly into smaller and smaller arteries until the branching results in microscopic arteries called arterioles. The arterioles play a key role in regulating blood flow into the tissue capillaries.
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