MICROANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -What are capillaries? Capillaries are delicate blood vessels that exist throughout your body. They transport blood, nutrients and oxygen to cells in your organs and body systems. Capillaries are the smallest blood vessels in your vascular system.

Detailed explanation-2: -Capillaries allow exchange of substances with body tissues through their thin walls. As blood travels at high pressure in the arteries towards the capillaries, pressure filtration occurs which results in plasma passing through the capillary wall into the tissue fluid which surrounds the cell.

Detailed explanation-3: -The site of exchange of materials between blood and the surrounding cells is capillaries. Blood capillaries are the smallest vessels and are only one cell thick. Hence, exchange of materials can easily occur by diffusion across the membranes of blood capillaries.

Detailed explanation-4: -Capillaries have walls only one endothelial cell thick, meaning their walls are very thin. This makes them well adapted for gas exchange, as substances only have to diffuse over a short distance. Additionally, there are many capillaries within a capillary bed.