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Arteries carry oxygenated blood to the body tissues and organs. Veins carry deoxygenated blood from the tissues back to the heart and lungs where it becomes oxygenated again.

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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.


What is the vein that carries pure blood?

The pulmonary vein carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart.


What veins carry oxygenated or blood red or blue?

Red veins carry oxygenated blood.


What veins carry oxygenated blood?

The only veins in an adult that carry oxygenated blood are the pulmonary veins, which carry blood from the lungs to the heart after it has been oxygenated. All other veins in the body carry relatively de-oxygenated blood.However in fetal circulation, the umbilical vein also carries oxygenated blood.Otherwise, arteries carry oxygenated blood to the body from the aorta and heart.


Is the blood in the Pulmonary artery oxygenatated or deoxygenated?

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.


Which veins carry oxygenated blood?

They don't, arteries carry oxygenated blood


What veins carry deoxygenated blood?

All veins carry de-oxygenated blood away from the heart except for the pulmonary vein and the umbilical vein, both of which carry blood towards the heart.


Most veins carry what kind of blood?

The only veins in an adult that carry oxygenated blood are the pulmonary veins, which carry blood from the lungs to the heart after it has been oxygenated. All other veins in the body carry relatively de-oxygenated blood.However in fetal circulation, the umbilical vein also carries oxygenated blood.Otherwise, arteries carry oxygenated blood to the body from the aorta and heart.


What are the only veins to carry oxygenated blood?

all veins


Is venous blood deoxygenated?

No, it is oxygenated. Pulmonary veins are the only veins in the human body that carry oxygenated blood.


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 the basic difference between arteries and veins?

Arteries carry oxygenated blood from the heart and veins carry de-oxygenated blood back to the heart.