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What blood vessels carry blood back to the heart from the lungs?

The pulmonary veins carry blood from the lungs back to the heart.


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Veins carry stale, or deoxygenated blood from the body back to the heart. The exception to this rule is the pulmonary veins, which carry oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart.


What is an pulmonary veins?

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Which blood vessel takes blood to and from the lungs?

The pulmonary arteries carry blood from the heart to the lungs and pulmonary veins carry blood back to the heart.


What materials carried of the veins?

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Which blood vessels Cary blood back to the heart?

Aorta carry that. And the veins carry the oxygen poor blood back to the heart and lungs.


What type of blood travels through the arteries?

The arteries carry highly oxygenated blood. The veins carry deoxgenated blood and cellular wastes back to the kidneys to process waste and to the lungs to exchange CO2 for more O2.


What role do arteries and venis play in the excretory system?

Arteries carry oxygenated blood from the lungs around the body. Veins carry 'used' blood back to the lungs.


What are the names of two veins that bring oxygenated blood from the lungs back to the heart?

The pulmonary veins are found in pairs. Two from each lung. They carry oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart.


What are the veins leading from the lungs into the heart?

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Do veins and ateries carry oxygenated blood?

Arteries carry oxygenated blood to the body tissues and organs. Veins carry deoxygenated blood from the tissues back to the heart and lungs where it becomes oxygenated again.