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Which vessels have a high oxygen content aorta pulmonary veins or pulmonary arteries?
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∙ 12y ago
They love this question on test! This is the only spot in the adult that the terms artery and vein are reversed. So in this case the pulmonary vein have the highest oxygen content. The pulmonary vein return blood from the lung, where it just got oxygenated.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 13y agoShould have exactly the same blood flow, given it is a one-way pathway that goes through both the aorta and pulmonary artery.
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What are the blood vessels that carry oxygen filled blood away from the heart are called?
Most arteries are high in oxygen except for the pulmonary arteries.
What are blood vessels which carry oxygen-rich blood?
The arteries carry the blood that is high in oxygen content, while the veins carry the blood that is low in oxygen content.
Vessels of the heart that carry blood high in oxygen?
Coronary arteries, aorta, pulmonary vein.
Where does an artery carry oxygen poor blood?
The pulmonary artery carries oxygen poor blood and the pulmonary vein carries oxygen rich blood.
Name the blood vessels that carry oxygen poor blood away from the heart?
Arteries always carry blood from the heart. In this case, the artery is the aorta.
Which vessels have blood with oxygen?
Arteries carries oxygenated blood expect pulmonary artery whereas veins carries deoxygenated blood except pulmonary vein
Among the different blood vessels which receives the highest oxygen concentration?
the coronary arteries Which blood vessels contain blood that is higher in oxygen? -Pulmonary Veins
Blood vessel carrying oxygen rich blood?
Arteries (except the pulmonary artery) and one vein the pulmonary vein.
What describe arteries?
Arteries are thick-walled blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart. They usually carry oxygen-rich blood, except for the pulmonary artery.
What are 2 examples of when the rule that arteries carry oxygenated blood and veins carry de-oxygenated blood do not apply?
the pulmonary artery carries oxygen poor blood and the pulmonary vein carries oxygen rich blood. the arteries that carry blood from the placenta to the fetus, carry oxygen-poor blood amd the vein that goes from the fetus to the placenta carries oxygen-rich blood.
What is distinct about the pulmonary arteries?
They are low in oxygen which is not usually found in arteries.
TYpe of blood vessels delivers oxygen-rich blood from the heart?
The arteries carry oxygen-rich blood away from the heart and to the rest of the body. Veins carry oxygen-poor blood back to the heart to be oxidized.
