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No deoxygenated blood is dark red and oxygenated blood is lightish red.
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Why other people that the color of the blood is blue?
No one has truly blue blood. De oxygenated blood is 'bluer' than oxygenated blood. The phrase 'blue blood' often refers to royalty.
Color of oxygenated blood?
Oxygenated blood color is Red so when you bleed it is red because it is oxygenated.In your body unoxygenated its purplish-blue.
Color is oxygenated blood?
Blood is always red. Skin color changes to blue for different reasons.
Why is blood color bright cherry red as it enters from the heart to the different parts of the body?
Because it is oxygenated blood When the blood is oxygenated it means that the iron atom (hemoglobin) of erythrocytes has carried the oxygen. The hemoglobin combined with oxygen gives red color to the blood. Some animals has another atom in blood which is able to bind to oxygen for example octopus blood contains copper which binds to oxygen and it gives the blood a blue color. See related link for more detail.
What color are veins?
Veins are blue in color, they carry deoxygenerated blood which has greater absorption coefficient than the oxygenated blood that runs in artery which is mainly responsible for the blue color.
What color is de oxygenated blood?
No. De-oxygenated blood is a dark red color. It may look blue in an anatomy and physiology text book, but the authors do that to show more clearly which blood vessels, usually veins, that carry de-oxygenated blood. That is why they color them blue. And then the arteries, which usually carry oxygenated blood, are colored red. In real life, your veins look blue because of the other tissues that have pigments in them that you have to look through to see your veins. Even though they appear on the outside to be blue, in fact, on the inside they are carrying deep dark red blood. Just look at the vial of blood the next time the nurse draws some for a test. You will see that it is dark red.
Why does a person turn blue when choking?
because your oxygenated blood is what gives you colour and if you are being strangled or choking it cuts off the oxygen supply and you go the colour of your de-oxygenated blood.
What determines your blood type?
The determination of blood's color will depend on if there is oxygen in the blood or not oxygenated blood is a dark red color, the same color of the blood that comes out of am open scratch, Or Blue if it has little to no oxygen at all
What color is oxygenated blood?
all blood is red but people may think its blue. oxygenated blood comes from the arteries and it is usually bright red. unoxygenated blood is dark red and comes from the vein. so if you are a child and you get a cut and an adult ask you what color is the blood, dont think they are crazy
What veins carry oxygenated or blood red or blue?
Red veins carry oxygenated blood.
Why is De-oxygenated blood darker red?
Oxygenated blood contains higher concentrations of oxyhemoglobin (oxygen bound to hemoglobin), which absorbs less of the red portion of the visible spectrum than does deoxyhemoglobin. Therefore, oxygenated blood is more red than oxygen-poor blood...and oxygen-poor blood has a bluish tinge.
Why do your vains look blue?
your veins look blue because your blood has no oxygen, when your blood is oxygenated it is red and when it is deoxygenated it is blue. veins carry blood toward the heart and are often blue while arteries carry blood away from the heart and are filled with oxygenated blood.
