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The liver.
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What blood vessel carries blood from the intestine to the liver?
Red Blood cell
Name the blood vessel that carries digested food to the liver?
hepatic portal vein
Vessel that transports nutrients to the liver?
An artery carries blood to the liver, not a vein. The hepatic artery.Maybe you meant to ask which vein receives nutrient-rich blood from the small intestine. That would be the superior mesenteric vein. But it doesn't go to the liver.
Which vessel carries blood with the least carbon dioxide?
By definition arteries always carry blood away from the heart and veins carry it to the heart.Most arteries carry blood with the least amount of carbon dioxide. But there is an exception. The arteries that carry blood to the lungs is very high in carbon dioxide.
What blood vessel carries blood from the intestine to the liver and is it oxygenated or deoxygenated?
The Hepatic Portal Vein
What is the name of the blood vessel thst carries blood from the ileum to the liver?
the hepatic portal vein
This carries blood from the digestive system to another set of capillaries in the liver?
hepatic portal system
What large vessel carries blood from the gastrointestinal tract to the liver?
Hepatic portal vein
How do you differentiate between an artery and vein in the liver?
The hepatic artery in the liver enters from the bottom and is much smaller in diameter than the aorta or the portal vein that it lies above. The hepatic vein exits the liver from the top, carries blood through the top portion of the liver, and is larger in diameter than the hepatic artery.
What carries nutrient rich blood into the liver?
Blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the organs.
What is the vein that carries pure blood?
The pulmonary vein carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart.
Which blood vessel takes oxygenated blood away from the heart?
The blood vessel that carries out this task is called the Hepatic Portal Vein
