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Veins carry blood back to the heart. In contrast, arteries carry blood away from the heart.

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How does blood move in artery veins?

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.


What carries blood to the heart?

Veins carry deoxygenated blood back the heart.


Which type of blood vessels does the blood flow away from the heart in?

Blood flows away from the heart in arteries, and towards the heart in veins.


Veins carrry blood to the heart?

Veins are thin. They carry blood to the heart and brain.


What do arteries and veins drain?

Arteries drain (pump blood) into veins. Veins drain into your lungs and heart to be re-oxygenated. (This is not true for veins and arteries to and from your lungs.)


What type of blood vessel carries the blood to the heart?

Veins


What carries the blood toward the heart?

Veins are blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart.


Blood vessel that carries blood to the heart?

veins, maybe


What structures supply the heart with blood?

Veins. Veins carry unoxygenated blood towards the heart.


IS the heart chmabers called arteries and veins?

The heart chambers are not called arteries and veins. Heart chambers are atria and ventricles.


What is the major difference between arteries and veins?

Arteries carry blood away from the heart. Veins return blood to the heart.


Are veins and arteries an organ of the heart?

No. The heart is one organ in itself. Veins and arteries are just vessels that transport blood to and from the heart. To be specific, the veins transport the blood towards the heart, and arteries transport it away.