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Your veins are running all throughout your body with blood running through them. And all the veins are connected the the heart.
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What are differerences between veins and arteries?
Structurally, veins and arteries are very similar. The main differences is that veins move blood towards the heart, whereas arteries move blood away from the heart.
What direction do the arteries move blood?
Arteries carry blood away from the heart and veins carry low oxygenated blood back to or towards the heart.
Why is it not possible for blood in the veins to move backward away from the heart?
because valves prevent this action
Why is it possible for the blood in the veins to move backward away from the heart?
because valves prevent this action
Blood vessels that move toward and away from the heart are what?
Veins carry deoxygenated blood towards the heart and arteries carry oxygenated blood from the heart to the rest of the body. There is one exception however. Pulmonary veins carry deoxygenated blood away from the heart towards the lungs and pulmonary arteries carry oxygenated blood towards 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.
Where does Artery take blood?
veins move blood to the heart; arteries move blood away from the heart. Blood goes from the heart to the lungs to get oxygen, then back to the heart, then to the body (to deliver the oxygen), then back to the heart, where it starts the process over again.
What are the blood vessels that move blood away from the heart called?
Arteries A good way to remember the difference between arteries and veins is A = away and A= arteries. Both away and artery start with A.
Why is po2 higher in the aveolous than in the pulmonary veins?
because the pulmonary veins have deoxygenated blood, the pressure decreases as you move away from the initial site of oxygenation.
How do skeletal muscles help blood move in veins?
because of the blood muscles that push the heriastic pulley. the move the blood through the veins and arteries.
What move blood to the heart?
Veins and Arteries move the blood throughout your body which are part of the Respiratory System with the help of the heart pumping the blood.
What are vessels that move blood toward the heart called?
i think its the pulmonary vein, aorta, and main artery
