Section 2
Arteries
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Boundless Anatomy and Physiology
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Artery Function
Arteries are high-pressure blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood away from the heart to all other tissues and organs.
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Elastic Arteries
An elastic or conducting artery has a large number of collagen and elastin filaments in the tunica media.
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Muscular Arteries
Distributing arteries are medium-sized arteries that draw blood from an elastic artery and branch into resistance vessels.
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Anastomoses
A circulatory anastomosis is a connection or looped interaction between two blood vessels.
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Arterioles
An arteriole is a small diameter blood vessel in the microcirculation system that branches out from an artery and leads to capillaries.
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Capillaries
Capillaries, the smallest blood vessels in the body, are part of the microcirculation.