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Veins typically carry de-oxygenated blood towards the heart. The exception is the pulmonary artery and the umbilical artery.

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What is the vessel that carries deoxygenated blood to the lungs?

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Blood vessel taking blood to lung?

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What kind of blood vessel often carries both oxygenated and deoxygenated blood?

red blood cells


What blood vessel carries blood from the intestine to the liver and is it oxygenated or deoxygenated?

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What blood vessel Carry's deoxgenated blood?

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What is the blood vessel which carries blood from the tissues to the heart?

Veins carry deoxygenated blood from the body back to the heart.


What blood vessel lets blood empty into the left atrium?

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What are kind the blood vessel?

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What vessels carry blood to lungs.?

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Which vessel carries deoxygenated blood from the brain back to the right side of the heart?

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