EEOB 2520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Aortic Arch, Vasopressin, Diuretic

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17% do better when they come to lecture. 14& do better when they go to the party room. Site exchange via diffusion: increased surface area, decrease flow rate. Lowest hydrostatic pressure due to the increased surface area: determined by blood pressure and surface area. There are so many walls because of the increased sa, so the pressure isn"t as much on the wall since it has to spread out. After exchange of o2 and waste have to get rid of waste and get more o2 by going back to lungs. We return to the heart through venules. We name vessels based on direction they go in (to heart or away from heart) not based on content within them because not always either oxygenated or deoxygenated. Venules thin because not worth using our resources: don"t need thick walls so why invest in it waste of atp.