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Because the arteries wouldn't be able to have blood flow through your body unlike arteries veins are through out your whole body so they can transport blood through your whole body, veins keep your blood circulating

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The only arteries in the body carry deoxigenated blood away from the heart are?

The only arteries in the body that move deoxygenated blood away from the heart are the pulmonary arteries. Arteries are blood vessels.


Does heart pump blood to arteries or veins?

The heart pumps blood through the arteries to all parts of the body. The blood is carried back to the heart through the veins.There is an exception: The Pulmonary artery is the only artery that carries blood to the heart & and the Pulmonary Vein is the only vein that carries blood from the heart.


What blood vessel carries oxygenated blood?

Arteries and the pulmonary vein transport oxygen-rich blood through the body.


How much blood you donate?

Only 10% because you need blood to be alive and to breath correctly and you need blood to flow through you veins and arteries


What are the only arteries in the body that carry deoxygenated blood?

The Pulmonary arteries?


What make the pulmonary arteries unique among arteries?

they are the only arteries that carry de-oxygenated blood.


Why does your heart pump blood around in your veins?

To return blood to the heart and lungs only to provide nutrients and oxygen to the cells of the body through the arteries.


Tell how an artery and a vein alike and different?

Blood flows through both Well, for one thing, veins and arteries both carry blood through the body and they both lead from the heart too. The only difference is that the arteries, are fatter than veins. Also, i think that if you pop an artery or poke a hole in your artery, then your blood comes spewing out like a fountain! The arteries take blood from the heart, while the veins, bring blood too the heart.


Can an atery carry deoxygenated blood?

There's only 1 kind of arteries that will carry deoxygenated blood. And that is the pulmonary arteries.


What is true about pulmonary artery?

Pulmonary arteries are the only arteries that carry unoxygenated 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.


Do arteries never carry oxygen-rich blood?

Arteries almost always carry oxygen rich blood. The only exception is the pulmonary artery.