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but there's now millions of these of vessels all over your body.
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The blood is not flowing at a large flow rate through a big vessel,
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it's flowing at a much smaller flow rate through many,
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many vessels but the total has to add up to the total that goes in.
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Well, you know the rest of the story;
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the capillaries merge after they leave the tissue area.
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They merge into small veins;
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veins are collecting tubules for de-oxygenated blood.
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Now, this is blood that has transported all of its nutrients
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into the tissue that it serves
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so it doesn't have a lot of oxygen anymore.
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It has a lot of waste products now,