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Most veins do not carry oxygenated blood. The exception is the pulmonary vein, which brings oxygenated blood from the pulmonary circuit to the heart.
The left and right pulmonary veins carry oxygenated blood back to the left atrium of the heart
No. As arteries are the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart, they regularly tend to have oxygenated blood. But in pulmonary circulation, the pulmonary artery carries de oxygenated blood from the heart to both the left and right lungs. Pulmonary artery is an artery that carries de oxygenated blood.
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.
Both. In the systemic system arteries carry oxygenated blood and veins carry deoxygenated blood. The opposite is true for the pulmonary circuit.
They don't, arteries carry oxygenated blood
The pulmonary artery carries oxygenated blood. You can remember this easily because all ARTERIES carry oxygenated blood and all VIENS carry deoxygenated blood.
Blood in the arteries is oxygenated. Blood in the veins is de-oxygenated. With the exception of the pulmonary arteries which carry de-oxygenated blood, and the pulmonary veins that carry oxygenated blood.
Arteries carry oxygenated(oxygen rich blood) and veins carry deoxygenated blood. But pulmonary artery carry deoxygenated blood and pulmonary vein carry oxygenated blood.
De-Oxygenated blood. The pulmonary artery is one of the only arteries that carry de-oxygenated blood.
Pulmonary vein carries oxygenated blood from lungs to heart
The pulmonary veins carry oxygenated blood to the heart.