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Q: What is the name of the first artery leaving your heart carrying oxygenated blood?
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What is pulmonary artery carrying?

Oxygenated blood


Function of the right coronary artery?

right coronary artery carrying of the oxygenated blood only the heart


Important of the aorta artery?

The aorta is the main artery that oxygenated blood leaving the heart (or left ventricle) is pumped through to get to the rest of the body. Hope this helps.


Largest main artery of the body?

AORTA. It is the artery carrying all the oxygenated blood to the body directly from the heart.


What type of blood does an artery carry?

oxygenated blood oxygenated blood oxygenated blood


Why the pulmonary veins carrying the oxygenated blood and not the pulmonary artery?

it's a pulmonary VEIN because the blood isn't under as much pressure (because it has yet to get to the heart) where as the pulmonary artery is coming straight from the heart so is under more pressure. (the pressure is caused by the heart's contractions)


What is the only artery carrying blood rich in oxygen?

Pulmonary artery is the only artery that carries non-oxygenated blood. Conversely, the pulmonary vein is the only vein that carries oxygenated blood.


Blood in bronchial artery oxygenated or deoxygenated?

Oxygenated


What is the main artery leaving the heart that carries blood to the body?

The aorta is the largest; it takes oxygenated (oxygen rich) blood from the heart to the body.


Does the pulmonary artery carry oxygenated blood or deoxygenated blood?

The pulmonary artery carries oxygenated blood. You can remember this easily because all ARTERIES carry oxygenated blood and all VIENS carry deoxygenated blood.


What is an artery's purpose?

An artery carries oxygenated blood. A vein carries DEoxygenated blood.


Which blood carry coronary artery?

The coronary artery carries oxygenated blood to the heart.