(October 13, 2014 at 3:22 pm)lifesagift Wrote: So if, for example, one of these capillaries is malformed and doesn't join to a venule, then what would happen with blood just constantly pumping into a dead end?
This happens all the time - when you get a bruise it's blood leaking into the surrounding tissue after a break in the arterial/capillary tissue.
Luckily blood also transports around the material necessary to fix this (platelets).
