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It's in these capillary beds,
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which are illustrated here by these little meshes,
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where you have the smallest diameter vessels.
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They're feeding very particular regions of tissue,
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not your whole intestine
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but only a very small region of the intestine.
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They have thin walls that lack muscle;
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they're not muscular walls.
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It's in these capillary beds that exchange of nutrients takes place.
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It's in these capillary beds that exchange of
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oxygen, carbon dioxide, sugar, amino acids--
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that takes place in capillaries.