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The heart kind of looks like a royal crown. So in Latin, the word for crown (corona) was used to describe the heart. Thus, coronary means "pertaining to the heart". An artery is a blood vessel leading away from the heart toward another body part. This usually means that an artery is carrying fresh, red blood (oxygen-rich blood). So coronary artery means that fresh blood from inside the heart is being sent to the heart itself! This requires further explanation to those who are understandably confused by this.
The coronary arteries are the blood vessels that supply the heart itself. The heart is a muscle that unselfishly pumps blood to the entire body 24/7- but the poor heart needs blood for itself in order to stay alive. The heart is made of muscle. Inside this muscle is a little system of blood vessels. The coronary artery feeds this heart muscle so that it can continue it's work.
Blood has oxygen and nutrition in it as well as immune system components that help fight disease. All tissues of the body need all of these things to function and stay healthy. The heart is no exception- in fact, in the short-term, it's more crucial for the heart to get this stuff than most other tissues since it works so hard and is drastically affected by infections like those caused by streptococcus ("strep throat") bacteria.
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∙ 12y agoThe Pulmonary arteries carry deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs.
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∙ 10y agoThe pulmonary artery is the only artery in the human body that can carry deoxygenated blood. It takes the blood from the heart and back to the lungs.
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What heart chamber does the pulmonary artery exit as it proceeds to the lungs?
right ventricle
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.
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.
What is the name of the large blood vessels that lead away from the heart?
Pulmonary artery Aorta
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.
What pulmonary artery transport?
pulmonary artery supplies de oxygenated blood to lungs.
What does a pulmonary artery look like?
the pulmonary artery looks like a tube, I think...
