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Question

When a doctor is recording your pulse, he is pressing on your wrist exactly on a
(a) vein (b) capillary (c) artery (d) arteriole

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Solution

option c is correct

(c) artery

Veins return low pressure blood to the heart. They have thinner walls than arteries. The pulse is the spurt of high pressure blood that passes along the arteries when the left ventricle contracts. It can be felt where arteries pass close to the body surface.



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