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Blood in the veins is usually what color?
Purple or blue The blood becomes red when it gets contact with oxygen this is why when you get blood drawn it looks purple or blue
What colour is your blood on its way into your lungs?
blue
Why does your heart have two halves?
Two halves make whole :)Technically your heart has 4 chambers, so 4 quarters. AnswerIt is because your heart is two pumps in one package.The right side of the heart, which contains an atrium and a ventricle, pumps oxygen-depleted blood to the lungs for oxygenation, through the pulmonary artery. That artery is the only artery in the body that carries venous or "blue" blood. The left side of the heart, which contains a separate atrium-ventricle unit, pumps oxygenated blood ("scarlet" blood) out to the various parts of the body.
Why is half of the heart blue and half red?
Because the right side of your heart pumps deoxygenated blood and the left side pumps oxygenated blood.
Is it true that all of the blood in your body is blue?
No. But the 'used' blood on its way back to the lungs is dull red, and looks blue through the veins.
What kind of blood feels the right side of the heart?
The right side of the blood receives deoxygenated blood from the systemic (body) circulation. The right atrium receives blood from the systemic veins and pumps it into the right ventricle. At that point, the right ventricle pumps that blood to the lungs.
What color is blood outside your body?
Fresh blood is brilliant red, but as it clots it will turn brown.
Does blue veins mean your dying?
No, blue veins does not mean you are dieing blue veins mean that the vein is carrying de-oxygenated blood which is being carried from the heart to the lungs to be turned into an oxygenated red artery because the lungs fill the blood up with oxygen. tip: oxygenated blood is a bright red de-oxygenated blood is a dull red
Does the term blue blood refer to the blood in the arteries?
No. Veins, have the deoxygenated blue blood. they travel throughout the body to the lungs in order to oxygenate the blood and turn the blood red. Th red blood travels through the heart and out in to the arteries.
What are the differences between the left and right side of the human heart?
One difference between the left side and the right side of the heart is that the left side pumps blood to the body and the right side pumps blood to the lungs. Another difference is that the right side has a tricuspid valve and the left side has a mitral valve.
Where is the pump in the circulatory?
The circulatory system pumps blood through the heart. The constant beating you feel when you put your hand over your chest is literally your heart pumping blood through your veins. The reason it does this is to get oxygen to your brain, Red blood cells (Ironically blue at this point) pass through your body for various reasons and pump through your lungs picking up oxygen from the lungs (which then turns them red) and on up into the brain which allows us to live… yay! Bottom line, heart pumps blood to keep the brain alive. HOW it pumps blood is hard to explain. Just think of like a turkey baster, pump the end and it comes out? Can't think of putting it any easier.
What dose the left atrium do?
Left Auricle and AtriumEach auricle slightly increase the capacity of an atrium so it can hold greater volume of blood.
