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Who discovered blood capillaries?

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William Harvery
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Girolamo Fabrici
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Marcello Malpighi
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Robert Brown
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Solution

The correct option is A William Harvery
Blood capillaries are the smallest blood vessels having a wall one endothelial cell thick. They convey blood between arterioles and venues and are sites for the exchange of water, oxygen, glucose, creatinine etc. William Harvey first that established a presence of something connecting arteries to veins. In 1661, Marcelo Malpighi first observed and correctly described capillaries in frogs lung.
Girolamo fabrici is known as the father of Embryology. He was the teacher of William Harvey. Robert Brown discovered cell nucleus and random movement of microscopic particles in a surrounding solution referred to as “ Brownian movement”. Thus, the correct answer is option A.

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