What is the relationship between Elasticity and Compliance? Compliance is like elasticity of hollow tube. Elasticity is less for instance for arteries so they are less compliant.
There seems to some sort of relationship between compliance and elasticity.
Based on Tyler's comments:


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*Compliance is the derivative of strain with respect to stress (or derivative of displacement with respect to force). 

*Elasticity is like opposite of stiffness.


about which I am not sure.
One figure about compliance for vein and artery:

where I think the slope of the curve (gradient) is the compliance of each curve.
What is an approximate relationship between the elasticity and compliance?
 A: $Elasticity$ describes the relation between the $force$ (or $stress$) on a body and the corresponding $distortion$ (or $strain$).   $Force/distortion$ (or $stress/strain$) is called $stiffness$;  the inverse, $distortion/strain$ (or $strain/stress$, is called $compliance$.   Which is more useful depends on which of each pair you start with which of each pair you're trying to find.
Two misconceptions you have.   Firstly, $inelastic$ doesn't mean stiff;  it means the material doesn't return to its original shape when the force is removed.   Sand is inelastic.   Secondly, stiffness, compliance and elasticity can be modelled in any number of dimensions:  a simple spring has them in 1-D, a rubber sheet has them in 2-D, a lump of metal has them in 3-D.
A: But then more elastic the structure is more will be the difficulty in stretching it or trying to develop elastic energy in it having said that why cant we consider compliance to be the product of distentibility and the volume of the vessel and because of this even highly elastic vessels have higher compliance beacuse of the large volume of blood like the aorta which they can accomodate 
