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Arteries carry oxygenated blood bcos arteries carry blood from the lungs n the lungs have breathed sent the oxygen to the heart 2 carry the oxygenated blood 2 the rest of the body. Love, Wint frm Singapore
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 13y agoAll arteries carry oxygenated blood with the exception of the pulmonary artery from the right side of the heart to the lungs, which does not.
Yes. Most arterial blood is oxygenated. There are two exceptions to that rule. One is the pulmonary artery which carries deoxygenated blood. The other is the umbilical vein which also carries deoxygenated blood.
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Do veins carry oxygenated blood or deoxygenated blood?
Deoxygenated With the exception of the pulmonary vessels, veins carry deoxygenated blood; arteries carry oxygenated blood.
What is different about pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins?
The pulmonary artery and pulmonary vein originates in the heart. What is different about them is that the pulmonary artery carries deoxygenated blood (blood without oxygen) as supposed to other arteries, which carry oxygenated blood. And the pulmonary vein carries oxygenated blood unlike other veins, which carry deoxygenated blood.
Is the blood in arteries oxyenated or deoxygenated?
The blood in arteries is usually oxygenated because arteries carry blood away from the heart.
Does the pulmonary artery carry oxygenated blood or deoxygenated blood?
The pulmonary artery carries oxygenated blood. You can remember this easily because all ARTERIES carry oxygenated blood and all VIENS carry deoxygenated blood.
Is the blood of the systemic circulation system oxygenated or deoxygenated?
Both. In the systemic system arteries carry oxygenated blood and veins carry deoxygenated blood. The opposite is true for the pulmonary circuit.
Difference of pulmonary arteries to ordinary arteries?
All arteries carry oxygenated blood except pulmonary artery. Pulmonary arteries carry deoxygenated blood to the lungs where it becomes oxygenated.
Arteries carry what kind of blood away?
Arteries carry oxygenated blood away from the heart.....veins carry deoxygenated blood to the heart
What is different from a artery and a vein?
arteries carry oxygenated blood and veins carry deoxygenated blood
Ateries carry oxgen rich or poor blood?
Arteries carry oxygenated(oxygen rich blood) and veins carry deoxygenated blood. But pulmonary artery carry deoxygenated blood and pulmonary vein carry oxygenated blood.
Which blood vessels carry oxygenated and deoxygenated blood?
In the main, except from the pulmonary artery and vein. The pulmonary artery carries deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs and the vein carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart.
What blood in artteries is it?
Arteries carry blood away from the heart. In the systemic circulation, they carry oxygenated blood. In the pulmonary circulation, arteries carry deoxygenated blood.
What contains deoxygenated blood?
Veins carry deoxygenated blood from the tissues and organs to the heart. Arteries are the means for carrying the oxygenated blood.
