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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


What makes blood come back through the veins?

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.


What does the heart push blood through?

The heart pushes blood to your body through the arteries. The blood returns through the veins. The large, flexible artery into which the heart pumps is the aorta.


How is blood moved through the veins and arteries?

the heart pumps the blood round our bodies


How does blood move in veins?

Veins!!!!! When the muscles outside the veins move, they squeeze the veins. This pushes the BLOOD towards the heart because one-way valves prevent blood from flowing


What carries blood toward the heart from the lungs?

Arteries carry blood away from the heart and Veins carry blood back to the heart. When the heart contracts it pushes the blood out through one way valves. There are also little one way valves in the veins and arteries so that the blood will continue to flow in one direction.


Does high blood pressure affect the veins?

Veins don't carry blood at high pressure arteries carry blood at high pressure. Arteries have a thick, elastic muscle layer that can handle high pressure of the blood flowing through them.


What does the blood travel through?

arteries and veins


How blood pass through the veins?

what veins does it pass through


Where does the blood go after entering the heart?

blood enters the right atrium through two large veins, the superior vena cava and the inferior vena cava. the blood is deoxygenated and is bluish in colour. the right atrium contracts and pushes blood through to the right ventricle. this turns contracts and pushes blood to the lungs through the pulmonary vein. when the blood reaches the lungs it receivers oxygen and turns bright red. this oxygenated blood then flows back to the heart and enters through the left atrium via the pulmonary veins. when this chamber contracts, blood is pushed out of the aorta to circulate around the body.


How do you write Irish blood runs through these veins?

Irish blood runs through these veins


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.