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Veins have valves which make them unique, (as compared to arteries or capillaries). This is to prevent blood from going in the opposite direction.
Since arteries lead away from the heart, the blood travels through using the pressure differential. But since the blood found in veins are so far off from the heart, they require contractions from skeletal muscle to squeeze blood towards the SVC/IVC and back into the right atrium.
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What connects blood vessel and the veins?
veins are blood vessels
What type of blood vessel carries the blood to the heart?
Veins
Blood vessel that carries blood to the heart?
veins, maybe
What blood vessel contains poor blood?
in the veins
What blood vessel moves blood to the heart?
veins
What is the blood vessel that carry blood to your heart?
veins from the body or the pulmonary veins from the lungs
Which blood vessel carries blood toward the capillaries?
The veins carry blood toward the capillaries.
Which blood vessel have thin walls and contain valves?
Veins
Blood vessel that carries blood toward the heart?
blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart are called veins.
The vessel which takes the blood to be cleaned?
Veins.
Which vessel carries unoxygenated blood?
Veins
Which blood vessel has a pulse?
The blood vessel that has a pulse is an artery. Veins do not have enough blood pressure to register a pulse.
