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The blood in veins is deoxygenated (meaning that the oxygen has already been used throughout the body and is returning to the heart, then the lungs, so that the hemoglobin can be replenished with oxygen); whereas, the arteries carry oxygenated blood throughout the body. In summary, the veins carry LESS oxygenated blood than the arteries. HOWEVER, there are two situations where this is not true. This concept is reversed in fetal circulation AND in cardiac collateral circulation; therefore, a tip is to think of blood not in terms of oxygenated or deoxygenated but rather in terms of which way the blood flows from the heart. If blood flows from the heart to the body it is carried by and artery, conversely if it blood is carried from the body back to the heart by the body's veins.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 15y agoYes, blood that flows through veins (not arteries) is rich (high) in oxygen.
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∙ 14y agoThe pulmonary vein transports oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart, so yes, unlike most other veins, the blood here is indeed rich in oxygen.
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∙ 14y agoVeins carry blood low in oxygen and arteries carry blood rich in oxygen.
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∙ 11y agoThe pulmonary vein carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart. This is the only time oxygenated blood is carried by veins.
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∙ 13y agoall veins except for the pulmonary veins are low in oxygen
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Which kind of vein carries blood with high oxygen and low carbon dioxide?
The pulmonary veins are high in oxygen and low in carbon dioxide. All other veins are high in carbon dioxide and low in oxygen.
What kind of blood does vein carry?
Usually veins carry blood low in oxygen back to the heart except for the pulmonary veins. They carry blood higher in oxygen.
Oxygen-poor blood from the body returns to the hearts what?
Arteries always carry blood away from the heart. Veinsalways carry blood back to the heart.Most arteries are high in oxygen except for the pulmonary arteries. Most veins are low in O2.And then there are the pulmonary veins. The only veins that carry blood high in oxygen.
In a mammal blood with low oxygen content enters the of the heart?
The blood with high oxygen content enter the heart in left atrium through right and left pulmonary veins, combined together.
What do veins carry back to the heart?
Blood cells low on oxygen.
What are blood vessels which carry oxygen-rich blood?
The arteries carry the blood that is high in oxygen content, while the veins carry the blood that is low in oxygen content.
What type of blood has low oxygen and high carbon dioxide?
Deoxygenated blood is low in oxygen and high in carbon dioxide.
What are the blood vessels that take oxygen-poor blood away from the heart?
Arteries take blood away from the heart (arteries=away). Almost always these carry blood high in oxygen. Veins carry blood back to the heart and almost always carry blood low in oxygen. The only exception: Pulmonary arteries carry blood away from the heart but they are low in oxygen and need to pick up this in the lungs. The Pulmonary veins carry oxygen to heart from the lungs.
He had blue blood in his veins?
A blood seems blue in veins because when a blood is in veins they are low in oxygen and therefore look blue. When they get oxygenated, they become red and are carried by the artery.
What is the name of tubes that carry freshly oxygenated blood to the body?
These are called the pulmonary veins. Arteries always carry blood away from the heart but not all of these have blood high in oxygen. Veins carry blood back to the heart. Again most are low in oxygen except the ones coming from the lungs.
Do veins carry more oxygen than arteries?
No, they usually carry low oxygen blood except for the pumonary veins which carry oxygen from the lungs to the heart.
What blood vessel normally transport blood that is low in oxygen?
Low oxygen/de-oxygenated blood is carried by:all the veins (except the pulmonary vein)the pulmonary artery.
