AN 5.3 List general differences between arteries & veins

AN 5.3 List general differences between arteries & veins

S No	Feature	Arteries	Veins
1	Wall thickness	Mostly thick walled(except cranial and vertebral arteries in )	Thin walled
2	Muscle fibres	More	Less
3	Elastic fibres	More	Less
4	Lumen size	Narrow	Wide
5	Thickness of Tunica adventitia and Tunica media	TA>TM	TA<TM
6	Presence of valves	Absent	Present
7	Total number
8	Oxygenated or deoxygenated	Oxygenated (except Pulmonary artery)	DEoxygenated (except Pulmonary vein)
9	Colour	Reddish	Bluish
10	Location	Mostly Deeply situated	Both Superficially and deeply situated
11	Flow of blood	Spurty	Sluggish
12	Pressure of blood	High	Low
13	On injury	Blood flows out like a fountain in a large are around the artery	Blood flows out like a fountain in a large are around the artery
14	At the time of death	Get empty	Get filled