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What blood vessel that carries oxygen and nutrient-containing blood away from the the heart is a?
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Which blood vessel carries oxygen-poor blood back to the heart?
Systemic veins, not to be confused with pulmonary veins, carry oxygen poor blood back to the heart.
What small vessel and organ carries chemicals throughout the body?
The organ that is responsible for carrying chemicals through the body is the heart. This is because the heart pumps the blood which carries chemicals and oxygen to all body parts.
What does a aorta do in a fish?
vessel in the back that carries blood from the heart to the organs.
Name the vessel that conveys oxygen poor blood from the right ventricle?
The vessel that conveys oxygen-poor blood from the right ventricle is called the pulmonary artery.
What is the name of the blood vessel which supplies glucose and oxygen to tn heart muscle?
The name of the blood vessel which supplies glucose and oxygen to the heart muscle is an artery. Arteries carry blood away from the heart.
What blood vessel carries oxygen in blood?
pulmonary vein
What blood vessel carries oxygen or oxygen poor blood from the heart to the lungs?
pulmonary artery
What blood vessel carries oxygen poor blood from the heart to the lungs?
pulmonary vein
What is the blood vessel that carries oxygen and nutrient-containing blood away from the heart?
artery
What is the blood vessel that carries oxygen rich blood from the lung?
The pulmonary veins carry oxygen rich blood from the lungs to the heart.
What blood vessel carries oxygen to every cell in your body?
Capillaries
What is the blood vessel that carries oxygen poor blood from the right ventricles of the heart to the lungs?
Pulmonary Arteries
What is the vessel leaving the heart with low oxygen?
The blood vessel that carries deoxygenated (low oxygen) blood away from the heart is called the pulmonary artery. This artery carries blood to the lungs where it picks up oxygen and then travels back to the heart to be pumped out to the cells of the body. The best way to remember this is to remember that pulmonary means lungs and artery means a blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart. Most arteries carry blood that is rich in oxygen. The pulmonary artery is an exception.
What is the name of the blood vessel that carries oxygen to the cells and pick up waste?
Capillaries
What vessel carries food and oxygen to the heart?
Food?! Nothing. If you're referring to how the blood gains oxygen, it is via the coronary arteries which surround the heart, providing the cardiac tissue with energy and oxygen. If you're meaning what blood vessel carries oxygenated blood to the heart it would be the pulmonary vein.
Which blood vessel carries oxygen-rich blood to the heart?
The pulmonary veins carry O2 rich blood to the heart.
What is A blood vessel that carries oxygen and blood away from the heart?
artery... remember away and artery both begin with an A
