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Where does blood go after it leaves he pulmonary veins?
The Pulmonary arteries
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.
Why do one of your pulmonary veins take blood to your right ventricle?
One of your pulmonary veins does not take blood to your right ventricle.your pulmonary arteries on the other hand take blood from the right ventricle. They take the blood to the lungs to be oxygenated. There are four pulmonary arteries, two go to your left lung and two go to your right lung.All of your pulmonary veins takes blood to your left Atrium which then moves it into your left ventricle.
Which pulmonary blood vessels carry oxygen-rich blood?
The pulmonary veins carries oxygen rich blood from the lungs to the heart.
What is different about pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins?
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.
What vessels carry blood away from the lungs?
Pulmonary veins
What blood does pulmonary vein carry?
Oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart. This is unusual as almost all veins carry deoxygenated blood.
What return blood to the heart?
Veins return blood to the heart.The pulmonary veins.
Why do you have veins that have oxygen in them?
The only veins that have oxygen in them are the pulmonary veins. The definition of a vein is a blood vessel that carries blood to the heart. This blood is usually de-oxygenated, but the pulmonary veins are the exception.
Do veins allow blood to travel away from the heart?
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.
What blood vessel carries blood to the lungs?
The pulmonary arteries carry blood to the lungs to be oxygenated.
What blood vessels carry deoxgenated blood?
Veins with the exception of the pulmonary vein which carries oxygenated blood. The pulmonary artery carries deoxygenated blood.
