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It carries oxygen rich blood to keep the skin and nerves alive and functioning properly. When the oxygen gets too low in the capillaries and extremities infection, numbness and gangrene can set in.
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What does peripheral vein carry to the extremities oxygen rich or oxygen poor blood?
Oxygen poor blood
Does the pulmonary artery in adults carry oxygen rich blood or oxygen poor blood?
poor
Do arteries carry oxygen-rich blood to capillaries?
Systemic Arteries carry oxygen rich blood (also called oxygenated blood). Pulmonary Arteries carry oxygen poor (deoxygenated) blood
What do veins carry oxygen poor blood into?
The lungs, where they become oxygen-rich blood
Does the circumflex artery carry oxygen rich or poor blood?
All arteries carry blood that is rich in oxygen except those arteries that carry blood to the lungs called the pulmonary arteries.
What parts carry blood away from the heart?
Arteries carry Oxygen rich blood away from the heart. While our viens carry Oxygen poor blood back to get filed with more Oxygen
Can a blood vessel be defined as an artery or a vein by the type of blood it carries?
An Artery caries Oxygen Rich blood and a Vein carries Oxygen Poor blood, but not by definition because the Pulmonary Arteries carry Oxygen Poor blood and the Pulmonary Veins carry Oxygen Rich blood, (these vessles can be found between the heart and the lungs).
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.
Where does an artery carry oxygen poor blood?
The pulmonary artery carries oxygen poor blood and the pulmonary vein carries oxygen rich blood.
Why does capillary change color as it passes by your body cells?
Capillaries change color as they pass by body cells as the blood they contain loses oxygen. Oxygen-rich blood has a brighter color than oxygen-poor blood.
What is the correct order of the following - 'a' oxygen rich blood arrives at capillaries - 'b' oxygen enters body cells - 'c' heart pumps oxygen rich blood - 'd' oxygen moves through capillary walls?
'c' heart pumps oxygen rich blood, 'a' oxygen rich blood arrives at capillaries, 'd' oxygen moves through capillary walls, 'b' oxygen enters body cells.
Is blood in the arteries in rich in oxygen?
By definition, ALL arteries carry Oxygen rich blood. Veins carry oxygen depleted blood.
