"Capillaries are like tiny intricate webs of blood vessels covering every where so that all our cells receive oxygen from our blood "
"The capillaries are like gentle streams of delicious sweet hemoglobin and the heart sounds like an out of tune bass drum "
"The circulatory system is the body's transportation highway. Arteries, veins and capillaries are like the major and local routes in the body's transportation system. In the respiratory system, as we take every breath, oxygen comes into our body. As we breathe out carbon dioxide, a waste product leaves our body so we can live and be healthy."
Veins are the freeways and capillaries
are the smaller side roads. The red blood cells move down these narrow local roads dropping off oxygen to the houses and people that live along those roads.
"Arteries and veins are like hoses of different thicknesses. Capillaries are like a soaker hose, always leaking. The analogy breaks down, though, because albumin in the blood pulls the fluid
"A capillary bed is like the delta at the end of a river. All the
branching slows down the flow."
"The smallest blood vessels, which are located in between, are called capillaries. Arteries and veins are like rivers that carry large amounts of blood very fast. Arterioles and venules are more like small streams
and capillaries are like swamps."
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