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Venules

(noun) Plural form of venule.

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Re: Artery vs Vein

... for the immense pressure when blood is pump out of from the left ventricle. As it flows from the heart-artery-arteries-arterioles-capilaries-venules-veins-vein-heart blood pressure keeps dropping as it goes further away from the heart because it loses kinetic energy with distance increase. ...

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by chanhankiang
Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:01 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Artery vs Vein
Replies: 11
Views: 15703

HISTOLOGY - help with identifying connective tissue

... I think they are big/medium blood vessels. The ones with thick walls are artery or arteriole, whereas the thin-walled ones must be vein or venules. Could you provide more image, please? I like analyzing this way. I don't care whether I am right or wrong but it helps me much to improve my ...

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by Dr.Stein
Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:43 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: HISTOLOGY - help with identifying connective tissue
Replies: 10
Views: 822

LUNGS and AIR

... is thin enough to allow gas and other stuff to pass through and the "walls" of arteries and veins including arterioles and venules are not. Doc44 Science is pretty simple....some scientists make it appear complex.

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by Doc44
Sat Feb 25, 2006 6:47 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: LUNGS and AIR
Replies: 10
Views: 1576

Re: Respiration

... very good for respiration, since these alveoli can take in more air, than alveoli in the top of the lungs (where blood pressure of arterioles and venules is smaller then the pressure of the alveolus) where the alveoli are half opened.

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by sdekivit
Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:54 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Respiration
Replies: 5
Views: 772

Artery vs Vein

... At the venous end of capilliaries, blood pressure has droped to about 16mmHg. Blood pressure continues to drop as blood enters systemic venules and then veins because these vessels are farthest from the left ventricle. Finally, blood pressure reaches 0mmHg as blood flows into the right ...

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by clarence
Fri May 27, 2005 6:30 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Artery vs Vein
Replies: 11
Views: 15703


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