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No. Pulmonary veins take blood from the lungs to the right atrium.(veINs take blood IN to the heart.) Pulmonary arteries take blood from the heart(left ventricle) to the lungs.
But pulmonary veins are the only veins in the body to carry oygenated blood, and pulmonary arteries are the only arteries to carry deoxygenated blood.
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∙ 9y agoVeins, with one exception, carry blood from the body back to the heart. The pulmonary vein carries oxygenated blood away from the heart to the lungs.
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Do veins travel away from the heart?
Veins carry blood to the heart while arteries carry blood away.i
Blood travel to the heart in what?
Veins
What does blood travel back to the heart in?
Veins
Where do the blood returning to heart travel in?
Veins
What actions or forces allow blood to return to the heart?
The actions or forces that allow blood in the veins to return to the heart is that the blood in the veins is moving through the veins at a lower pressure, so the valves and muscular pumps withing the body help the blood circulate back to the heart.
What is the role of a vein?
Veins allow blood to travel from the body and lungs back to the heart (to be pumped to the body and lungs, simutaneously and seperately).
What are the veins function?
To allow the blood to get back to the heart to be reoxygenated.
In what blood vessel does blood travel on its way back to the heart?
Veins. Remember it this way, 'a' for away and 'a' for arteries. If arteries take blood away from the heart, then veins must take it to the heart.
What direction do veins carry blood?
Veins carry blood towards the heart. Arteries carry it away from the heart.
Which characteristics describes the blood carried by the pulmonary veins?
The pulmonary veins are the only veins in the body that carry oxygenated blood. Like all veins the blood in the pulmonary veins travel toward the heart.
What blood vessel travels to the heart?
There is no blood vessel that pumps blood. Only the heart pumps blood. The veins have one way valves that help bring blood back to the heart assisted by the contraction of skeletal muscles.
How do blood cells travel?
Blood cells travel to and from the pump called the heart by way of the blood vessels called the arteries and veins.
