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Because both are carrying blood without oxygen.

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The pulmonary trunk and pulmonary arteries are colored blue in all of the figures Why are they colored blue like most veins?

Because they carry veinous blood.


Oxygenated blood leaves the lungs via the?

The pulmonary artery


What vessels take blood to and from the lungs?

The Pulmonary Artery


Where do the pulmonary arteries and veins lie are they in the pulmonary circuit?

yes


Where does blood go after it leaves he pulmonary veins?

The Pulmonary arteries


What is different about pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins?

The pulmonary artery and pulmonary vein originates in the heart. What is different about them is that the pulmonary artery carries deoxygenated blood (blood without oxygen) as supposed to other arteries, which carry oxygenated blood. And the pulmonary vein carries oxygenated blood unlike other veins, which carry deoxygenated blood.


Which vessel transports blood from the heart to the lungs?

The vessel that carries blood from the heart to the lungs is called the pulmonary vein. It is one of the few veins that carry oxygenated blood to the heart. The oxygenated blood enters the atrium of the heart.


What the significance of pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins?

they carrythe blood to and from thelungs


What is Abnormal communication between the pulmonary arteries and veins?

pulmonary arteriovenous fistula


What blood vessel carries blood to the lungs?

The pulmonary arteries carry blood to the lungs to be oxygenated.


What carries fresh oxygenated blood?

Arteries and pulmonary veins


Do veins allow blood to travel away from the heart?

No. Pulmonary veins take blood from the lungs to the right atrium.(veINs take blood IN to the heart.) Pulmonary arteries take blood from the heart(left ventricle) to the lungs. But pulmonary veins are the only veins in the body to carry oygenated blood, and pulmonary arteries are the only arteries to carry deoxygenated blood.