Submitted by EnchantedCatto t3_117t3ba in askscience
dcs1289 t1_j9i74cj wrote
Reply to comment by Krail in when a limb gets amputated, how do they stop the flow of blood? by EnchantedCatto
Capillaries are everywhere. It's the end point of the circulatory system everywhere, so there are beds of capillaries in basically any living tissue.
Probably the most well-known tissue with poor/limited blood supply is tendons/ligaments - these are connective tissues with a lot of intracellular matrix made up of collagen, and blood supply to these tissues is poor the further you get from the source blood vessel as there is often very little collateral circulation (what it's called when an area has multiple arteries that feed the capillary beds).
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