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: -The circulatory system delivers oxygen and nutrients to cells and takes away wastes. The heart pumps oxygenated and deoxygenated blood on different sides. The types of blood vessels include arteries, capillaries and veins.

Detailed explanation-3: -A tube through which the blood circulates in the body. Blood vessels include a network of arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venules, and veins.

Detailed explanation-4: -The great vessels of the heart include your aorta, pulmonary trunk, pulmonary veins and vena cava (superior and inferior).

Detailed explanation-5: -This vast system of blood vessels-arteries, veins, and capillaries-is over 60, 000 miles long. That’s long enough to go around the world more than twice! Blood flows continuously through your body’s blood vessels.