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Blood in veins is kept flowing in one direction by the presence of?
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Valves, allown blood through in one direction when the pressure builds up but close when pressure is applied in the opposite direction.
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What do veins have that arteries do not to keep waste rich blood flowing in the right direction?
Valves.
What flap of tissue keeps the blood flowing in the wrong direction?
These are valves, and are found in veins to prevent blood from flowing backwards.
Are the veins in the valve?
Other way around. Valves appear in veins to keep the blood flowing in one direction to the heart.
The vessel with valves that keep blood from flowing in the right direction?
Veins have valves to make sure that blood flows in only one direction.
What prevents blood from flowing in veins?
veins contain valves that prevents blood flowing backwards between heartbeats.There are valves in the veins that stop the blood from flowing backwards.
What do veins have which prevent blood from flowing towards the heart?
Veins have valves which stop the blood from flowing backwards
What blood vessel structure is unique to veins?
Many have small valves that keep the blood flowing in the correct direction. You can actually see these if they fail to work. We call them varicose veins.
What are the blood vessels that contain valves to prevent blood from flowing in a backward direction?
Pulmonary artery which contains pulmonic valve and aorta which contains aortic valve.
Why do people have veins?
To get blood flowing
What prevents blood from flowing backward into the veins?
valves in the veins
Values inside the veins prevent from flowing what?
Valves in the veins prevent the blood from flowing backward or from pooling.
Do the valves of veins keep blood flowing in one direction?
yes.it prevent the intermixing of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood
