Physical Education GCSE
Arteries
What Arteries means in Physical Education GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Arteries
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Reference: OCR
Vessels that carry blood away from the heart at high pressure, with thick muscular, elastic walls and a narrow lumen.
Topics that use Arteries
Related terms
- Aerobic respiration
- Capillaries
- cardiac output
- Double circulation
- Haemoglobin
- Heart chamber and valve structure
- One-way blood flow
- Oxygenation states of blood
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