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How does the pulmonary vein differ from the other veins in the body?
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∙ 12y ago
The pulmonary vein is the only vein that carries oxygenated blood. Arteries are the major oxygenated blood carriers (away from the heart) veins carry blood back to the heart. The pulmonary vein returns blood from the lungs to be distributed by the heart and arteries.
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 14y agoAll veins carry blood to the heart, but the difference between the pulmonary vein and all others is that the pulmonary transports oxygenated blood to the heart. De-oxygenated blood flows through the other veins.
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∙ 13y agoPulmonary Veins carry blood that has recently been oxygenated in the lungs back into the heart in order to be pumped out again. On the other hand, most other veins carry deoxygenated blood into the heart in order to be pumped into the lungs and become reoxygenated.
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∙ 13y agoIt is the only vein that carries OXYGENATED blood back to the left atrium to be sent to the rest of the body.
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∙ 15y agoLike all other veins, it carries blood to the heart, but unlike all other veins, the pulmonary vein carries oxygenated blood, from the lungs.
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∙ 12y agoIt carrys oxinated blood through it.
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∙ 7y agoIt is higher in oxygen.
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Which characteristics describes the blood carried by the pulmonary veins?
The pulmonary veins are the only veins in the body that carry oxygenated blood. Like all veins the blood in the pulmonary veins travel toward the heart.
Whats the advantage of the pulmanary veins location?
Pulmonary veins are responsible for carrying oxygenated blood from the lungs back to the left atrium of the heart. This differentiates the pulmonary veins from other veins in the body, which are used to carry deoxygenated blood from the rest of the body back to the heart
What is different about pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins?
The pulmonary artery and pulmonary vein originates in the heart. What is different about them is that the pulmonary artery carries deoxygenated blood (blood without oxygen) as supposed to other arteries, which carry oxygenated blood. And the pulmonary vein carries oxygenated blood unlike other veins, which carry deoxygenated blood.
What are the different types of veins in the body?
pulmonary vein and systemic veins
What is the blood vessel that carry blood to your heart?
veins from the body or the pulmonary veins from the lungs
How may pulmonary veins in human body?
Veins are vessels that bring blood to the heart. Pulmonary veins carry oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium. There are four pulmonary veins which extend from the left atrium to the lungs. They are the right superior, right inferior, left superior, and left inferior pulmonary veins.
What is unusual about pulmonary vein and pulmonary artery?
The pulmonary veins are the only veins in the body that carry OXYGENATED blood (from the lungs to the left atrium), and the pulmonary arteries are the only arteries in the body that carry DEOXYGENATED blood (from the right ventricle to the lungs).
What Part Of The Body Is The Blood Being Returned To The Heart As It Passes Through The Pulmonary Vein?
Blood traveling through the pulmonary veins is being returned to the heart from the lungs. The pulmonary veins have the distinction of being the only veins in the body which carry oxygenated, rather than deoxygenated blood.
Do veins allow blood to travel away from the heart?
No. Pulmonary veins take blood from the lungs to the right atrium.(veINs take blood IN to the heart.) Pulmonary arteries take blood from the heart(left ventricle) to the lungs. But pulmonary veins are the only veins in the body to carry oygenated blood, and pulmonary arteries are the only arteries to carry deoxygenated blood.
Which areas receives blood directly from the pulmonary veins?
Blood from the pulmonary veins enters the left atrium, is then pumped to the left ventricle, and then to the rest of the body through the aorta.
Is venous blood deoxygenated?
No, it is oxygenated. Pulmonary veins are the only veins in the human body that carry oxygenated blood.
Most veins carry what kind of blood?
The only veins in an adult that carry oxygenated blood are the pulmonary veins, which carry blood from the lungs to the heart after it has been oxygenated. All other veins in the body carry relatively de-oxygenated blood.However in fetal circulation, the umbilical vein also carries oxygenated blood.Otherwise, arteries carry oxygenated blood to the body from the aorta and heart.
