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Venous reserve is available to maintain tissue oxygenation if either systemic oxygen demand increases or arterial content falls.

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Blood that is oxygen poor?

Venous blood is oxygen poor (in comparison with arterial blood).


Arterial blood tends to be what while venous blood is what?

Arterial blood is under direct pressure from the heart and is oxygen rich, which venous blood is oxygen poor and is under low pressure.


What are causes of dark venous blood?

it has more oxygen than arterial blood


What is the color of venous blood?

interesting fact when blood is in your veins it is blue but when you get a shot oxygen hit you blood and it turns red.


Why is mixed venous blood sample monitored?

Because that is where all of the venous blood runs through just before it enters the lungs and becomes re-oxygenated. So it is the most mixed up venous blood in the body.


How does arterial blood and venous blood differ with regard to their oxygen and carbon dioxide content?

Arterial blood have more Oxygen and venous blood have more CO2 except the pulmonary vien which carry oxygenated blood to the heart for pumping to arteries.


What gases are found in blood cells?

In arterial blood cells Oxygen. In venous blood cells Carbon Dioxide.


What Blood which contains carbon dioxide and lack oxygen?

Venous blood is loaded with carbon dioxide and low in oxygen Arterial blood is rich in oxygen with little carbon dioxide


What part of heart contains oxygen poor blood?

Venous blood enters the ventricle. The lung oxygenates blood from the aorta.


How is blood in arteries different from blood in veins?

Arterial blood in the systemic circulation is higher in oxygen and lower in carbon dioxide than venous blood. In the pulmonary circulation, arterial blood is lower in oxygen and higher in carbon dioxide than venous blood.


Kind of blood coming from different parts of the body going back to the heart?

Its the venous blood which has low oxygen concentration.


Oxygenated blood is found in the right atrium?

No. Right atrium is collecting venous (low oxygen) blood from all over the body.