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In general, yes. However, the exception is the pulmonary vein which transports oxygenated blood from the lungs to the hearts. In reverse, the pulmonary artery transports de-oxygenated blood to the lungs.
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What is the function of the veins in the blood?
The veins return the deoxygenated blood to the heart.
Which structures carry blood back to the heart?
The veins carries blood from the body to the heart.
These carry deoxygenated blood to the heart?
Veins... they return the 'used' blood back to the heart (via the lungs).
What do veins direct blood to?
Veins carry deoxygenated blood to the heart
The term for the vessels the deliver blood to the veins?
Capillary beds carry deoxygenated blood into veins to return the blood to the heart and then to the lungs to pick up oxygen.
What vessels transport deoxygenated blood into the heart?
in most cases, veins carry deoxygenated blood. the exception to this are the pulmonary veins which carry oxygenated blood. all veins carry blood back to the heart, while arteries carry blood away from the heart.
What does the largest vein in your body do?
The largest veins are the venae cavae that return deoxygenated blood from the body into the heart.
What are the blood vessels that direct blood to the heart?
Veins - return deoxygenated blood to the heart to be reoxygenated. In contrast to arteries that bring the oxgenated blood from the heart, to the rest of the body for use.
What blood vessels return blood to the heart?
Deoxygenated blood return form the body to the heart via the Superior and Inferior Vena Cavas, which join together to enter the Heart's Right Atrium.
What kind of blood do veins carry to the heart?
deoxygenated 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 purpose does a vein serve?
It serves the to return deoxygenated blood back to the heart
