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skyhigh
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03/13/06 - 08:26 AM

do arteries have a thicker tunica media or tunica intima?

Janka
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03/14/06 - 03:13 AM

than veins you mean?
should be tunica media

ManuNastai
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03/14/06 - 07:50 AM

media.

the muscular type arteries (e.g. arterioles) have
intima 10% (of the thickness of the wall)
media 80 %
adventitia 10 %

the elastic type arteries (e.g. aorta) have
intima 10%
media 55 %
adventitia 35 %

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