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Why does the heart gives away impure blood through the artery?
A pulmonary artery is an artery in the pulmonary circulation that carries deoxygenated blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs. The largest pulmonary artery is the main pulmonary artery or pulmonary trunk from the heart, and the smallest ones are the arterioles, which lead to the capillaries that surround the pulmonary alveoli.
What is the artery leading into the lungs called?
The blood vessels that take oxygenated blood from the right ventricle to the lungs are the pulmonary artery. It is part of the pulmonary circulation.
Which artery in the heart is the largest and why?
Aorta..has to pump blood to the entire body. Pulmonary artery has to pump to the lungs...much less of a distance.
What is the largest coronary vein of the human heart?
The pulmonary trunk is the largest artery in the pulmonary circuit that further divides into left and right pulmonary arteries before entering into the left and right lungs.
What is the main artery leading from the heart called?
The aorta is the largest artery in the body and consequently is the largest leaving the heart. The other artery to leave the heart is the pulmonary artery (incidentally the only artery that doesn't carry oxygenated blood).
Why pulmonary is an artery rather than vein?
in our body there are both, pulmonary artery and pulmonary vein
Is the pulmonary artery not a branch of the aorta?
The pulmonary artery is not part of the aorta.
Which vessels carries deoxygenated blood away from the heart?
Pulmonary arteries carry deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle.
Which artery sends the blood to the lungs?
The Pulmonary arteries carry deoxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart.
What is the artery and vein that takes blood to and from the lungs?
The pulmonary trunk carries blood from the right ventricle of the heart, then splits into the left and right pulmonary arteries. Answer: pulmonary trunk/left and right pulmonary arteries
The pulmonary artery sends blood to the?
the pulmonary artery sends blood to the lungs.
What does a pulmonary artery look like?
the pulmonary artery looks like a tube, I think...
