How do you diffrentiate between a vein and an artery?

Answer 1

Arteries are buried much deeper than veins. Near the heart you can see them throb with the pulse. If you pierce one, the blood spurts out, sometimes in rhythym with the heartbeat. The blood is bright red. Veins are darker in color, don't show a pulse, and don't spurt, but rather drain more slowly. The blood is a darker color from dark red to purple or maroon. In a first aid context, look for the bright red color and stop the arterial bleeding first, best with direct pressure.

Answer 2

The colour of the blood would be bright as opposed to dark very bright in comparison. It may be harder to push in as there is more pressure. If it is an artery when you push a tiny bit in it will hurt like hell so do it bit by bit. If your not sure try till you are. Better yet stop whatever your doing.

Answer 3

Arteries: Carry the blood away from the heart. Carry oxygenated blood except Pulmonary Arteries. Arteries are deeply placed in body. Blood pressure and velocity is high in arteries. valves are absent. Wall of arteries are thick, strong, elastic, and non-collapsible. its lumen is narrow.

Viens: Carry the blood towards the heart. Carry impure blood except pulmonary veins. Veins are superficially placed in body and appear blue in colour. Blood pressure and velocity is lower in veins. Walls are thin, weak, inelastic and collapsable. Valves absent. Its lumen is wide.

Answer 4

Arteries are deeper and usually bigger than veins, arteries carry blood from the heart and veins carry it back to the lungs and heart again, arteries pulse as each beat of the heart pushes blood out of the chambers of the heart, veins do not pulse or spurt. Blood in arteries is bright red and blood in veins is dark red.

If you study anatomy, you can know which vessels are in what locations of the body so you know how to identify one from the other also by where they are.

On anatomy charts the arteries are usually colored red and the veins are usually colored blue, but that is only for ease of differentiation in the picture for learning purposes. (We have no blue blood or blue veins, it is just that they are traditionally, but not always, displayed that way in drawings).

Answer 5

Arteries lie deep, carry bright red blood, and display a pulse; veins are shallow, carry dark "blue" blood and don't have a pulse.

Answer 6

If you are bleeding from a vein, it just oozes out slowly. If you are bleeding from and artery the blood spurts out in relation to your pulse.

Answer 7

Arteries carry blood away from the heart taking oxygen to the body. Veins carry depleted blood back toward the heart and lungs.

Answer 8

A vein carries unoxygenated blood back to the heart (so looks blue) and an artery carries oxygenated blood from the heart to the rest of the body.