The vasa vasorum

A. are incompetent valves in the large veins.
B. are special capillaries that supply nutrients to the walls of arteries and veins.
C. are the blood vessels that supply blood to the vas deferens.
D. are blood vessels that directly connect arteries to veins.
E. supply blood to skeletal muscle.


B

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