Blood capillaries are small, tiny blood vessels that help deliver oxygen and nutrients to all parts of our body. They are like little highways where the blood flows through, reaching every nook and cranny of our organs, tissues, and cells.
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Sentences with «blood capillaries»
- 41) Which of the following describes the cluster of blood capillaries found in each nephron in the kidney? (aama-ntl.org)
- They asked: How can the marrow, which is highly permeated with blood capillaries, harbor blood stem cells in a low - oxygen microenvironment? (pennmedicine.org)
- In the second study in Science, researchers from Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, created a chip 1 to 2 centimeters long in which a 1 millimeter - wide channel, coated with human lung cells on the inside and overlaid with human blood capillaries on the outside, mimicked the air sacs, or alveoli, of the lungs. (scientificamerican.com)
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