MICROANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -There are three types of blood vessels: 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: -A four-week-old human embryo already has miles of blood vessels. By adulthood, we each have 60, 000 miles of blood vessels inside our bodies – that’s more than twice the distance around the world.

Detailed explanation-3: -Therefore, five types of blood vessels are arteries, veins, capillaries, arterioles, and venules.

Detailed explanation-4: -A tube through which the blood circulates in the body. Blood vessels include a network of arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venules, and veins.