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Most of the oxygen in the blood is transported?
Oxygen molecules are bound to the red pigment HEMOGLOBIN, a protein complex found exclusively in red blood cells. A very small amount of oxygen is also dissolved in the liquid portion of blood, but hemoglobin carries the bulk of oxygen.
Where does the oxygen from air mix with blood?
Air will not touch your blood until it is release to outside the skin. In most veins at least. Wren oxygen touches the blood, it turns red, but normally is blue. Oxygen may be circulating in your veins, but will not mix with the blood cells. The above is only half true. Oxygen mixes with your blood in the capillaries inside your lungs. The blood then transfers over to your arteries where it travels the body to deliver the oxygen to your muscles and other organs.
A member of the same family as oxygen whose most stable ion contains 18 electrons?
Sulfur
What is oxygens function in the body?
Oxygen is one of the most vital components of the blood. Oxygen bonds with iron in the haemoglobin, that is how it is carried to the cells for exchange with CO2.
What turns blood red?
The protein hemoglobin, which carries oxygen in the blood, changes shape when it binds oxygen. When it changes shape, it absorbs different wavelengths of light, making it change color. When blood is exposed to air, much more of the hemoglobin absorbs oxygen than had in the vein the blood came from (in the veins, the hemoglobin has already given up most of its oxygen to the body). Therefore, the blood turns red.Source(s):http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/bi…
What vessel contains most of the blood in the body?
the capillaries are the most common blood vessel in the human body.
What blood vessel in fetus contain the most oxygen?
In the umbilical cord you have one vein and two arteries. This vein goes to the liver of foetus. This blood vessel contains most oxygen and food in case of foetus. After birth this vessel gets obliterated to form the falciform ligament.
Which blood vessel contains the most urea?
hepatic vein
What blood vessel contains most urea after protein meal?
Hepatic Vein
State which of the blood vessel would have the most oxygen?
The Aorta would have the most because it leads from the heart to the rest of the body. The Aorta is the body's largest artery. It is the main blood vessel carrying oxygenated blood from the heart.
What is the vessel leaving the heart with low oxygen?
The blood vessel that carries deoxygenated (low oxygen) blood away from the heart is called the pulmonary artery. This artery carries blood to the lungs where it picks up oxygen and then travels back to the heart to be pumped out to the cells of the body. The best way to remember this is to remember that pulmonary means lungs and artery means a blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart. Most arteries carry blood that is rich in oxygen. The pulmonary artery is an exception.
Blood vessel carrying oxygen rich blood?
Arteries (except the pulmonary artery) and one vein the pulmonary vein.
Which layer of the earth contains the most oxygen?
The troposphere layer contains the most oxygen. Stratosphere contains most of the ozone i.e. a form of oxygen.
In the human anatomy what is considered a vessel?
A vessel is anything that contains a fluid. There are many in the body. The most numerous are the blood vessels that carry blood, but there are also lymphatic vessels that carry lymph. The spleen is an organ that is considered a vessel, and so is the cisterna chyli which holds lymphatic fluid. All of these are considered vessels.
Why is it important that a vessel allows most of the blood to bypass the lungs?
So the lungs may have the right material to produce oxygen it needs to function correctly.
What causes blood clot in legs?
A blood clot is called a Thrombosis a blockage of a blood vessel by a blood clot. It is most likely to happen where normal blood flow is disrupted by for example plaques of fatty atheromatous tissue in the walls of an artery or inflammation of the blood vessel. The clot eventually narrows or blocks the passage of blood causing the tissues beyond to be starved of oxygen and nutrients.
What helps blood carry oxygen?
The only part of the blood which carries oxygen are the red blood cells. These blood cells contain what is known as hemoglobin, which is the most efficient part of the cell, and the only part of the cell, that can carry oxygen.
