Re: [HAPS-L] Capillary Circulation

[Terry Meehan <tjmeehan333@xxxxxxxxx>]

"blood stays red"??  All blood is red--changing from brick red to bright
red...
  

> >the capillaries? Paradoxically, the skin may stay quite rosy because
> some 
> >blood gets ?trapped? in the superficial capillary loops as the shunts 
> >swing into operation; also, the chilled skin cells take up less O2.?
> >
> >I don?t see a way for blood to become ?trapped? in capillaries since
> there 
> >is no ?post-capillary? sphincter.  I can see that the blood would not
> be 
> >forced out.  I assume that the reference to the low O2 uptake is an 
> >explanation for why the blood stays red.


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