How does the diameter of arteries veins and capillaries compare in size?

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2026-07-30 10:25

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Arteries and veins are both in the same size range

(which goes from more than an inch across to too small to be seen).

Capillaries run about 4 microns - or half the diameter of a red blood cell

(which must fold in order to get through them - thus the significance of sickle cell disease).

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