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The heart pumps it. When your heart beats it squeezes blood in the heart into the arteries and from the arteries to the veins and from the veins back into the heart.
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What are vessels that move blood toward the heart called?
i think its the pulmonary vein, aorta, and main artery
When you injure ourselves where does the blood come from veins or arteries?
Mostly veins or tiny artery's. If you cut an artery you will have a pulsating bleeding
The greatest drop in blood pressure occurs in the?
the veins
Where does the blood flow through?
Veins and artery's and Capillaries
What vessel carries deoxygenated blood?
Veins typically carry de-oxygenated blood towards the heart. The exception is the pulmonary artery and the umbilical artery.
The blood vessels that move blood away from the heart are called what?
the blood vessels that move away from heart are called arteries.heart receives impure blood from veins and it pumps pure and oxygenated blood to arteries which carry it away from heart to various parts of body by dividing into various branches.ex for such are SYSTEMIC ARTERY which carries pure blood away from heart while PULMONARY ARTERY carries impure blood from heart to lungs.this is the only artery which carries impure blood.
What is a blood artery?
There are three varieties of blood vessels: arteries, veins, and capillaries. During blood circulation, the arteries carry blood away from the heart. The capillaries connect the arteries to veins. Finally, the veins carry the blood back to the heart
How do you find arterial vein?
There is no such thing as an arterial vein. You either have an artery, or a vein. Arteries move blood away from the heart, and veins move blood to the heart. Also, arteries carry blood that contains oxygen to the various parts of the body, whereas veins carry blood that needs oxygen to the heart and lungs.
He had blue blood in his veins?
A blood seems blue in veins because when a blood is in veins they are low in oxygen and therefore look blue. When they get oxygenated, they become red and are carried by the artery.
What blood vessels carry deoxgenated blood?
Veins with the exception of the pulmonary vein which carries oxygenated blood. The pulmonary artery carries deoxygenated blood.
Why is the pulmonary artery a vessel not a vein?
veins return blood to the heart
What blood vessel carries blood away from the heart?
Arteries always carry blood away from the heart. Veins always carry blood back to the heart.
