GROSS ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Arteries carry blood away from your heart. Veins carry blood back toward your heart. Capillaries, the smallest blood vessels, connect arteries and veins.

Detailed explanation-2: -Capillaries. Capillaries are small, thin blood vessels that connect the arteries and the veins. Their thin walls allow oxygen, nutrients, carbon dioxide and waste products to pass to and from the tissue cells.

Detailed explanation-3: -Continuous capillaries connect arteries to veins in your circulatory system. They are an important part of how blood flows through your body. The continuous capillaries help your body move substances into and out of your bloodstream to and from organs.

Detailed explanation-4: -Capillaries are very narrow blood vessels found throughout your body. Arteries are thick and muscular blood vessels found deep inside your muscles. Capillary vs Vein. Both veins and capillaries can sometimes be visible through your skin, but veins are larger and thicker than capillaries.