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Arteries Cary oxygenated blood. This is usually to organs or muscles with the exception of the pulmonary artery wich carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart.
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Why is umbilical artery called an artery when it carries oxygenated and deoxygenated blood?
An artery is the vessel that carries blood away from the heart. The pulmonary artery carries only deoxygenated blood after birth.
What is the vessel that moves blood away from the heart?
the vessel is called a artery
What is a plumonary artery?
Pulmonary artery is a vessel which carries blood from the right ventricle of the heart and splits into the left and right pulmonary artery to supply the lungs with blood.
Which is a temporary small blood vessel that connects the pulmonary artery to the aorta in the fetal heart?
popliteal artery
What is the vessel leaving the heart with low oxygen?
The blood vessel that carries deoxygenated (low oxygen) blood away from the heart is called the pulmonary artery. This artery carries blood to the lungs where it picks up oxygen and then travels back to the heart to be pumped out to the cells of the body. The best way to remember this is to remember that pulmonary means lungs and artery means a blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart. Most arteries carry blood that is rich in oxygen. The pulmonary artery is an exception.
What blood vessel carry blood vessel?
The pulmonary artery, because it's the only vessel that oxygenates blood to the lungs.
Why is umbilical artery called an artery when it carries oxygenated and deoxygenated blood?
An artery is the vessel that carries blood away from the heart. The pulmonary artery carries only deoxygenated blood after birth.
Blood vessel taking blood to lung?
Pulmonary arteries which is the only artery which carries deoxygenated blood.
Main blood vessel beginning with A?
artery artery
Is the blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the lungs artery or vein?
It is the pulmonary artery
Which blood vessel does blood flow with a pulse?
artery
Why isn't an artery defined as a blood vessel?
....It is.
What is the blood vessel leaving the heart?
Artery
What is the blood vessel that carries away blood from the heart?
artery
What are the blood vessel that carry blood to the lungs?
the pulmonary artery
What blood vessel is blood carried away from the heart?
artery
Is the aorta apart of the heart or is it a blood vessel?
it is a blood vessel just the like carotid artery
