Total Cross Sectional Area Of Capillaries - Human Homo Sapiens

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Total cross sectional area of capillaries

Value	6000 cm^2 Range: Table - link cm^2
Organism	Human Homo sapiens
Reference	Lauralee Sherwood, Human Physiology: From Cells to Systems, Wadsworth publishing company 3rd edition 1997, p.311 table 10-1 & p.323 figure 10-16 - link
Comments	"Note that the velocity of flow is slowest in the capillaries, which have the largest total cross-sectional area...Even though the cross-sectional area of each capillary is extremely small compared to that of the large aorta, the total cross-sectional area of all the capillaries added together is about 1,300 times greater than the cross-sectional area of the aorta because there are so many capillaries (table 10-1 BNID 110560)."
Entered by	Uri M
ID	110559

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