Question: Which vessel in the human body is the weakest?

The doctor doesn’t know! He says that there are some that look like they’re the weakest, but it might just be because they’re the most visible. For example, its not uncommon to have a vessel in you eye burst so that the whites of your eyes go red. However, lots of other vessels in your body might do this, but you just wouldn’t know (if a small vessel goes somewhere other than your brain, it might not cause you any harm). People get aortic aneurisms (where the vessels that carry blood from the heart ruptures), but again, it may not be that the aorta is particularly weak, rather that if it blows you know about it as it makes you pretty sick.
Our other doctor says that some arteries are more likely to burst because they pump more blood and so are under higher pressure. Theres no simple answer!

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