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The pulmonary artery is unique. Normally, arteries carry arterial blood, i.e. fully oxygenated blood (rich with oxygen). The pulmonary artery, on the other hand, carries venous blood, which is deoxygenated (depleted of oxygen). It takes that deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs, where the exchange of gases occurs: carbon dioxide is expelled from the blood into the alveoli (functional and anatomical units of lung tissue), and oxygen is absorbed from the alveoli into the blood. After that exchange, the oxygen rich blood (oxygenated) returns to the heart via the pulmonary veins, and then the heart pumps it out through the aorta, sending the oxygen to the whole body.
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What word refers to the lungs?
pneum or pulmon
What is another name for the circulation of blood from lungs to heart to body?
Pulmonary circulation Pulmonary circulation pulmonary circulation pulmonary circulation
What are the pulmonary capacities?
pulmonary capacity
What is pulmonary koch?
Pulmonary Koch Syndrome is known as Tuberculosis (TB).
What vessels do the pulmonary trunk divide into?
The pulmonary trunk divides into the left and right pulmonary arteries.
Why pulmonary is an artery rather than vein?
in our body there are both, pulmonary artery and pulmonary vein
What vessels take blood to and from the lungs?
The Pulmonary Artery
Oxygenated blood leaves the lungs via the?
The pulmonary artery
What is the circulation called when it travels from the heart to the lungs and back?
Pulmonary circulation is the movement of blood from the heart, to the lungs, and back.
What is the artery leading into the lungs called?
The blood vessels that take oxygenated blood from the right ventricle to the lungs are the pulmonary artery. It is part of the pulmonary circulation.
What does a pulmonary artery carry that a pulmonary vein doesn't?
The pulmonary artery carries oxygen-poor blood. The pulmonary vein carries oxygen-rich blood.
Pulmonary semilunar valve guards the entrance to the?
The correct answer is between the right ventricle and pulmonary trunk.
