Which small vessels connect capillaries to veins?

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Which small vessels connect capillaries to veins?

After blood has completed exchange in the capillary bed, it drains into the small vessels called venules. Venules are the first vessels of the venous system and carry blood from capillaries into larger veins that return blood to the heart. Arterioles, by contrast, deliver blood from arteries to capillaries, not to veins. The aorta is the main artery leaving the heart and sits upstream of the capillary network.

After blood has completed exchange in the capillary bed, it drains into the small vessels called venules. Venules are the first vessels of the venous system and carry blood from capillaries into larger veins that return blood to the heart. Arterioles, by contrast, deliver blood from arteries to capillaries, not to veins. The aorta is the main artery leaving the heart and sits upstream of the capillary network.

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