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What system is the Pulmonary artery?

The Circulatory System


What is pulmonary artery?

The pulmonary artery is a structure that is located in the heart. Its' function is to transport deoxygenated blood from the heart to the respiratory system.


What is the similarity between pulmonary vein and pulmonary artery?

Both the pulmonary vein and pulmonary artery are blood vessels located in the pulmonary circulation system of the body. The pulmonary vein carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart, while the pulmonary artery carries deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs for oxygenation.


What connects the lungs to the circulatory system?

The pulmonary artery and the pulmonary vein.


What is the artery leading into the lungs called?

The blood vessels that take oxygenated blood from the right ventricle to the lungs are the pulmonary artery. It is part of the pulmonary circulation.


Why does the heart gives away impure blood through the artery?

A pulmonary artery is an artery in the pulmonary circulation that carries deoxygenated blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs. The largest pulmonary artery is the main pulmonary artery or pulmonary trunk from the heart, and the smallest ones are the arterioles, which lead to the capillaries that surround the pulmonary alveoli.


Why pulmonary is an artery rather than vein?

in our body there are both, pulmonary artery and pulmonary vein


Is the pulmonary artery not a branch of the aorta?

The pulmonary artery is not part of the aorta.


Which vessels carries deoxygenated blood away from the heart?

Pulmonary arteries carry deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle.


Which artery sends the blood to the lungs?

The Pulmonary arteries carry deoxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart.


What is the artery and vein that takes blood to and from the lungs?

The pulmonary trunk carries blood from the right ventricle of the heart, then splits into the left and right pulmonary arteries. Answer: pulmonary trunk/left and right pulmonary arteries


The pulmonary artery sends blood to the?

the pulmonary artery sends blood to the lungs.