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What part of the body is serviced by the carotid arteries and the jugular veins?
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The carotid artery takes blood from the heart up the neck, to our brain. The jugular vein returns blood from the head to the heart.
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What is jugular artery?
No such thing. The jugular veins drain blood from your head back to your heart. The carotid arteries take blood from your heart to your head.
What are the two main veins in the neck returning blood from the brain to the heart?
The jugular veins are the two main veins in the neck returning blood from the brain to the heart. Their arterial counterparts are the carotid arteries.
What is the vein that drains the area supplied by the carotid artery?
jugular veins...internal and external
What are the vessels that nourish the heart?
Veins take blood to the heart, arteries take blood away from the heart.The vessels that carry blood to the heart are called veins. Those that supply the body with blood from the heart are called arteries.Examples are the jugular veins that return blood from the head, and the carotid arteries that supply blood to the head.
What do arteries and veins drain?
Arteries drain (pump blood) into veins. Veins drain into your lungs and heart to be re-oxygenated. (This is not true for veins and arteries to and from your lungs.)
What parts of the body is serviced by the carotid arteries and jugular veins?
The carotid artery takes blood from the heart up the neck, to our brain. The jugular vein returns blood from the head to the heart.
What is jugular artery?
No such thing. The jugular veins drain blood from your head back to your heart. The carotid arteries take blood from your heart to your head.
How many jugular veins are there?
2. the carotid artery and the jugular veins; they are located on opposite sides of the neck.
What are the two main veins in the neck returning blood from the brain to the heart?
The jugular veins are the two main veins in the neck returning blood from the brain to the heart. Their arterial counterparts are the carotid arteries.
How does the blood circulate to the head and neck?
The common carotid arteries take blood to the head and the neck and the jugular veins take the blood back down.
What are vessels involved in the circulatory pathway to and from the brain?
The jugular veins carry blood from the brain. The carotid arteries carry blood to the brain.
What area do the right and left external jugular veins drain?
posterior head (musculature and skin of the scalp and face)
How many veins are there?
2. the carotid artery and the jugular veins; they are located on opposite sides of the neck.
What is shehitah?
the Jewish method of slaughtering animals for food. the trachea, esophagus, jugular veins, and carotid arteries must be severed in one of more uninterrupted movements of the knife.
Does oxgyen rech the brain through the internal jagular vein?
No, the jugular veins drain deoxygenated blood from the head. The internal and external carotid arteries carry blood to the brain.
What veins in neck have pulse?
None. The carotid arteries do.
What is the vein that drains the area supplied by the carotid artery?
jugular veins...internal and external
