NEET PG DENTAL EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -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-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: -Capillaries, the smallest and most numerous of the blood vessels, form the connection between the vessels that carry blood away from the heart (arteries) and the vessels that return blood to the heart (veins). The primary function of capillaries is the exchange of materials between the blood and tissue cells.