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17: Blood Vessels and Circulation

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Skills to Develop

  • Compare and contrast the three tunics that make up the walls of most blood vessels
  • Distinguish between elastic arteries, muscular arteries, and arterioles on the basis of structure and location
  • Describe the basic structure of a capillary bed, from the supplying metarteriole to the venule into which it drains
  • Explain the structure of venous valves in the large veins of the extremities


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