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Red blood cells, a major component of blood, carry and distribute oxygen throughout the body, giving individual cells access to oxygen. Oxygen is necessary for cell respiration - a process that allows cells to generate the energy they need to sustain themselves and do their tasks and jobs. If enough blood is taken from the body, cells can't access oxygen to sustain themselves, let alone do their job, so they would shut down and begin to die. This is why major blood loss can result in death.

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What blood vessel that carries oxygen and nutrient-containing blood away from the the heart is a?

The blood vessel that carries oxygen and nutrient-containing blood away from the heart is an artery. Arteries have thick, muscular walls to withstand the high pressure of blood being pumped from the heart.


What part of the heart is responsible for the intake and oxygenation of blood?

The heart is the pump. It pumps the blood regardless of the oxygenation status of the blood. The right side of the heart pumps the deoxygenated blood. Deoxygenated means from which the oxygen is taken away. The left side of the heart pumps the oxygenated blood. Blood gets oxygen and gives away the carbon bi oxide in the lungs. Lungs are specialized organ system to perform the same function.


Which gas does blood carry to the cells of the body What else does it carry to the cells?

It carries oxygen and carbon dioxide away from the cells of the body.* * * * *Not so.In general, it carries oxygen to the cells and carbon dioxide away from the cells.


What are two substances that are exchanged across membranes of red blood cels and muscle cells?

Oxygen and carbon dioxide are two substances exchanged across the membranes of red blood cells and muscle cells during respiration. Oxygen is taken up by red blood cells in the lungs and delivered to muscle cells for energy production, while carbon dioxide produced by muscle cells is carried away by red blood cells to be exhaled from the body.


Why is the pulmonary vein the onley oxygen-rich vein in your body?

Veins and arteries are not classified by whether they carry oxygen-rich or oxygen-poor blood. They are classified according to whether they carry blood to the heart or away from the heart. Veins carry blood to the heart and arteries carry blood away from the heart. So the pulmonary vein carries blood to the heart, which is why it is a vein. Also, the pulmonary artery, which carries oxygen-poor blood to the lungs is an artery because it carries blood away from the heart.

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What increases the rate of diffusion of oxygen into red blood cells in the lungs?

Blood is taken away from the lungs as it circulates.


What happens when energy is taken away?

What happens when thermal energy is taken away


What happens to your respiratory system?

It filters air and supplies oxygen to the blood stream. It also carries away carbon dioxide.


Do arteries carry oxygen or blood away from the heart?

They take the blood away


What parts carry blood away from the heart?

Arteries carry Oxygen rich blood away from the heart. While our viens carry Oxygen poor blood back to get filed with more Oxygen


What blood vessels take blood away from the heart after oxygen is added?

ARTERIES ALWAYS take blood AWAY from the heart.


What is blood carried away from the heart rich in?

blood coming from the HEART is rich in oxygen


What are the blood vessels that take oxygen-poor blood away from the heart?

Arteries take blood away from the heart (arteries=away). Almost always these carry blood high in oxygen. Veins carry blood back to the heart and almost always carry blood low in oxygen. The only exception: Pulmonary arteries carry blood away from the heart but they are low in oxygen and need to pick up this in the lungs. The Pulmonary veins carry oxygen to heart from the lungs.


What is blood carried away from the heart in?

oxygen.


How do rising levels of carbon monoxide affect your brain?

when carbon monoxide is taken in, it replaces the oxygen in the blood. this deprives cells and tissues of oxygen. It increases risk of high blood pressure and heart disease


What is A blood vessel that carries oxygen and blood away from the heart?

artery... remember away and artery both begin with an A


What does blood contain that carry oxygen away to the cells and wastes away?

Hemoglobin