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The pulmonary veins carry oxygenated blood.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoThe pulmonary vein carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart for distribution throughout the body.
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What vessel carries oxygenated blood in the pulmonary vein?
The pulmonary vein is the vessel that carries oxygenated blood. Veins, arteries and capillaries are all known as blood vessels as they carry blood around the body.The pulmonary vein is unusual because it is the only vein to carry oxygenated blood, all other veins only carry deoxygenated blood.
Do capillaries carry oxygenated blood?
Yes capillaries carry oxygenated blood :D
What is the difference between the pulmanary vein and the pulmanary artery?
For the most part, arteries carry oxygenated blood and veins carry de-oxygenated blood. This is opposite in the pulmonary veins and arteries because they are going to and from the lungs to get oxygen.
What does de-oxygenated mean?
Blood with co2...
Does the pulmonary artery contains oxygenated blood?
The pulmonary artery contains deoxygenated blood. It is going to the lungs to pick up oxygen.
Do vein carries oxygnated blood into the heart?
Not usually, the veins contain deoxygenated blood and the arteries contain oxygenated blood. The exception is the pulmonary vein which contains oxygenated blood from the lungs and into the heart.
Which side of the heart receives de-oxygenated blood and which receives oxygenated blood?
The pulmonary artery carries de-oxygenated blood from the right ventricle to the lungs. The pulmonary veins carry oxygenated blood from the lungs to the right atrium
What type of blood does an artery carry?
oxygenated blood oxygenated blood oxygenated blood
Does the pulmonary artery carry oxygenated blood or deoxygenated blood?
The pulmonary artery carries oxygenated blood. You can remember this easily because all ARTERIES carry oxygenated blood and all VIENS carry deoxygenated blood.
What contains deoxygenated blood?
Veins carry deoxygenated blood from the tissues and organs to the heart. Arteries are the means for carrying the oxygenated blood.
Why is De-oxygenated blood darker red?
Oxygenated blood contains higher concentrations of oxyhemoglobin (oxygen bound to hemoglobin), which absorbs less of the red portion of the visible spectrum than does deoxyhemoglobin. Therefore, oxygenated blood is more red than oxygen-poor blood...and oxygen-poor blood has a bluish tinge.
What is oxygenated blood and deoxygenated blood?
Oxygenated blood is the blood remaining after the oxygen intake by the body from the blood. And than oxygenated blood goes to Lungs and heart with enrich with oxygen for the body.
