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The heart is broken up into left and right halves. The left side (when looking at it from the front as if an observer) pumps unoxygenated blood through the capillaries of the lungs where it becomes oxygenated and then back around to the right side of the heart. This is called pulmonary circulation. The right side of the heart then pumps the oxygenated blood to all the various tissues of the body. Here the tissues take in the oxygen and the now deoxygenated blood is brought back to the left side of the heart to begin the cycle again. This portion of the cycle is called systemic sirculation. In both cases. The arteries are the high pressure blood vessels that carry the blood from the heart to its ultimate destination. The lungs in the pulmonary circulation and the different body tissues in the systemic circulation. The veins then carry the blood back to the heart. Therefore arteries cannot be classified as oxygenated or unoxygenated because the arteries of pulmonary circulation are unoxygenated while the arteries of the systemic circulation are oxygenated. Arteries instead are classified as high pressure blood vessels flowing AWAY from the heart while veins pump blood back towards the heart.
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What arteries carry?
Arteries Carry oxygenated blood away from the heart
What is the basic difference between arteries and veins?
Arteries carry oxygenated blood from the heart and veins carry de-oxygenated blood back to the heart.
What type of blood do arteries carry?
Oxygenated blood. The one exception is the pulmonary artery which carries un-oxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs.
Which vessels carry blood away from the heart- vain or arteries?
Pulmonary arteries carry oxygenated blood away from the heart. Veins carry blood to the heart.
Oxygenated blood is found in all arteries of the body. Is this true or false?
False. Oxygenated blood is found in the systemic arteries, which carry blood away from the heart to the body, but not in the pulmonary arteries, which carry blood from the heart to the lungs for oxygenation.
What carry's oxygenated blood?
Arteries carry oxygenated blood to the rest of the body from the aorta of the heart.
What is the function of most arteries in the body?
to carry oxygenated blood away from the heart to the cells, tissues, and organs of the body
Arteries carry what kind of blood away?
Arteries carry oxygenated blood away from the heart.....veins carry deoxygenated blood to the heart
Why are arteries red what are they carrying?
Arteries carry oxygenated blood from the heart.
What the blood away from the heart?
Arteries carry oxygenated blood away from the heart.
Do arteries carry oxygenated blood to the heart?
Oxygen All arteries, except the pulmonary and umbilical arteries, carry oxygen. None of them carry carbon dioxide.
Which blood vessel carries oxygenated blood from lungs to the heart?
The blood vessel carrying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart is the Pulmonary Vein. All veins carry blood towards the heart and all arteries carry blood away from the heart.
