• Question: How fast does blood move through the veins?

    Asked by Jordan Belfort to Kate on 13 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Kate Dobson

      Kate Dobson answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Apparently the blood in your aorta (coming out the heart) flows at about 40cm/s while the blood in the smallest capilliaries only flows at 0.03 cm/s.

      But I had to look that up.

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