MAKROTEACHING

NUR HIDAYAH BT TAIB

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1.2: Synthesizing the concept
of circulatory system
 Your body resembles a large roadmap,
there are routes or “blood vessels” that
take you downtown to the “heart” of the
city.
Types of blood vessels
Blood flows from artery → arteriole →
capillary → venule → vein
 COMPARISON BETWEEN BLOOD VESSELS
Feature Arteries Veins Capillaries

Direction of · Carry blood away from · Carry blood towards · Carry blood from
Blood Flow the heart the heart arterioles to venules
Blood · Carry oxygenated · Carry deoxygenated · Oxygenated blood on the
blood (with the blood (with the end nearer to arterioles
exception of the exception of the and deoxygenated blood
pulmonary artery and the pulmonary vein and the on end nearer to venule
umbilical artery) umbilical vein)
Blood Pressure · High arterial blood · Low venous blood · Blood pressure varies;
pressure pressure higher on the end nearer to
the arteriole and lower on
the end nearer to the
venule
Wall Structure · Thick, elastic muscular · Relatively thinner, · One-cell thick walls
walls slightly muscular walls
Valves · Absence of valves · Presence of valves · Absence of valves
Lumen · Smaller lumen as · Larger lumen as · Very small lumen,
Diameter compared to a vein of the compared to an artery of enough only red blood
same diameter the same diameter cells to squeeze through
one at a time