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More, not less. Oxygen is moved into the arteries by the lungs and pumpled by the heart through the body. As the cells use the arterial oxygen they create carbon dioxide as a byproduct of metabolism. This waste is sent to the veins where the heart pumps it back to the lungs to be exhaled with the breath.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 12y agoIt differs in pulmonary arteries and veins because they do the opposite thing to normal arteries and veins. Arteries usually carry oxygenated blood away from the heart to the body but pulmonary means lungs and the pulmonary artery carries de-oxygenated blood away from the heart but to the lungs and not round the body.
Veins usually carry de-oxygenated blood back to the heart but the pulmonary vein carries oxygenated blood to the heart which then pumps it into the aorta which takes it to the body.
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∙ 14y agoTechnically, yes, all arteries and veins contain oxygen, since blood is in your arteries and veins, and blood has oxygen.
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∙ 12y agoyup. Even the blue colour of veins is due to the excessive presence of carbon dioxide and less amount of oxygen.
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What contains more oxygen veins or arteries and why?
arteries is the oxygenated
Is the veins or the arteries richer in oxygen?
arteries because they carry blood from the heart,carrying oxygen to the blood cells
What statement is true of arteries?
Arteries carry blood with oxygen to the heart. Veins carry blood full of carbon dioxide to the lungs. Arteries have a thick wall. Veins have a thin wall. Arteries have no valves. Veins have valves.
What is the defiance between veins and arteries?
i think you mean difference so: Veins- oxygen-poor blood that is returning to the heart Arteries- oxygen-rich blood that is going to the cells
What are ten differences between arteries and veins?
well here is one: Veins- oxygen-poor blood that is returning to the heart Arteries- oxygen-rich blood that is going to the cells
Is blood in the arteries in rich in oxygen?
By definition, ALL arteries carry Oxygen rich blood. Veins carry oxygen depleted blood.
How does the direction blood travels in arteries and veins differ?
the blood in the arteries in oxygenated and is flowing away from the heart throughout the body tyo give your cells oxygen. the blood in the veins has had its oxygen depleted by your cells and is travelling back to the heart and lungs to get more oxygen
What are facts about veins and arteries?
If you gather all the veins and arteries together in your body, then it could wrap around the earth, twice!There are some veins and arteries that are smaller than a price of your hair!
What is the main difference in the amount of gasses in most arteries and veins?
Veins carry carbon Dioxide to the heart and arteries carry oxygen to the body.
When the oxygen goes into the bloodstream it goes into arteries veins or capillaries?
Oxygen moves into the lungs to the alveoli in the lungs into capillaries into pulmonary veins to the heart then to arteries that go through the rest of the body.
The 3 kind of blood vessels?
Arteries, capillaries, and veins. Arteries take blood away from the heart. Veins return blood to the heart. Capillaries are between the arteries and veins and supply the cells with oxygen and nutrients.
What carries oxygen in the blood?
Arteries, capillaries, and veins carry oxygen in the blood.
