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Contraction of surrounding muscles pushes blood through the veins. That's the reason it is advisable to walk a little after being seated for long.

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If blood pressure is low in veins how does blood getpumped through the veins back to the heart?

Veins have valves in them which help transport the blood.


What provides the pressure to move blood through the veins and back to the heart?

skeletal muscle contraction that squeezes the blood in the veins.


What are the blood vessels that direct blood back too the heart?

Blood leaves the heart through arteries, and returns through veins.


What is the tubes that are more gently drain back to the heart?

Blood is pumped throughout the body by the heart through arteries. The "Used" blood is further pumped back to the heart through veins. 'Veins' is your answer.


A subsystem that pumps blood into the heart?

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What causes the movement of blood through the veins?

The pressure your heart creates by pulsing, pumps blood through the veins


Is it blood that runs in veins?

It is not true. Blood is also runs in arteries. Arteries take the blood throughout your body and veins take the blood back to your heart.


Do hogs have veins?

Yes, hogs have veins just like all mammals. Veins are blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart after it circulates through the body.


Where does a red blood cell go after the systemic arteries?

The systemic arteriole, then the capillaries, the venule, the vein, the vena cava, the heart, the pulmonary artery, the pulmonary arterioles, capillaries, the pulmonary veins, the heart, into the aorta, and back into the artery.


Nutrient rich blood is returned back to the atrium through?

The nutrient-rich blood is returned to the atrium through the pulmonary veins. These veins bring freshly oxygenated blood from the lungs back to the heart to be distributed to the rest of the body.


Why doesn't blood flow back?

There are valves every 4 inches in all your blood veins. Blood can go through but it can't go back


What takes blood back to the back to the heart?

Veins take blood back to the heart.