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Cattle Injury Capillaries

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Question 2: Arteries Veins Capillaries
Function - Keep the oxygenated blood flows from the heart to body cells, apart from the pulmonary artery that takes the deoxygenated blood to the lungs
- Resist the high blood pressure during ventricle systole
- maintain the pressure during ventricle diastole - Keep the deoxygenated blood flows from body cells to the heart, except the pulmonary vein that takes the oxygenated blood to the heart, with low pressure
- Blood reservoir - Permit fast diffusion and exchange between the blood and body cells
- Control blood flow to the most needed area
Structure of wall They consist of three tunics:
• Tunica adventitia or externa (the outer layer): a layer of connective tissue that attach the vessels to the surrounding …show more content…

Pulmonary circulation where the blood is transported from the heart to the lungs and vice versa.
2. Systemic circulation where the blood is transported from the heart to all the body except the lungs and vice versa.
The importance of the double circulation lies within the fast providing of blood to all body parts by pumping it with high pressure to reach body’s extremities.
This does not occur in single circulation, such as in fish, as the oxygenated blood that is needed by the cells is not delivered sufficiently. The heart of fish has only two chambers and the movement of blood starts from the heart to the gills, then to the rest of the body and completing the circuit by returning to the heart at low pressure which makes the circulation slow.
Whereas in double circulation, the heart has four chambers and acts as double pumps. Blood is pumped to the lungs from the right side of the heart allowing gas exchange to occur, pouring out carbon dioxide, and receiving oxygen. This is accompanied by pressure drop. After the blood returns to the left side of the heart, the blood is pushed to other body parts and the pressure is restored greater than before, making sure that all the cells receive the oxygenated blood

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