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What is different about pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins?
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∙ 13y ago
The pulmonary artery and pulmonary vein originates in the heart. What is different about them is that the pulmonary artery carries deoxygenated blood (blood without oxygen) as supposed to other arteries, which carry oxygenated blood. And the pulmonary vein carries oxygenated blood unlike other veins, which carry deoxygenated blood.
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∙ 9y agoIn the human body arteries carry oxygenated blood and veins carry deoxygenated blood. The pulmonary arteries and veins are exceptions to this rule. The pulmonary arteries carry deoxygenated blood, and the pulmonary veins carry oxygenated blood.
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What vessels take blood to and from the lungs?
The Pulmonary Artery
The relative PO2 and PCO2 in pulmonary arteries and veins and systemic arteries and veins?
Pulmonary artery/Systemic veins PCO2 = 45 PO2 = 40 Pulmonary vein/Systemic arteries PCO2 = 40 PO2 = 100
Where does blood go after it leaves he pulmonary veins?
The Pulmonary arteries
Where do the pulmonary arteries and veins lie are they in the pulmonary circuit?
yes
What the significance of pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins?
they carrythe blood to and from thelungs
What is Abnormal communication between the pulmonary arteries and veins?
pulmonary arteriovenous fistula
Why are the pulmonary arteries and umbilical arteries called arteries instead of blood vessels?
Pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins are two different items. The pulmonary artery takes deoxygenated blood from the heart and into the lungs so that the blood can be oxygenated. The oxygenated blood then returns to the heart, via the pulmonary veins, in order to be pumped into the system circulation.
What blood vessel carries blood to the lungs?
The pulmonary arteries carry blood to the lungs to be oxygenated.
What carries fresh oxygenated blood?
Arteries and pulmonary veins
Do veins allow blood to travel away from the heart?
No. Pulmonary veins take blood from the lungs to the right atrium.(veINs take blood IN to the heart.) Pulmonary arteries take blood from the heart(left ventricle) to the lungs. But pulmonary veins are the only veins in the body to carry oygenated blood, and pulmonary arteries are the only arteries to carry deoxygenated blood.
Where is the location of the left pulmonary vein?
The left pulmonary vein carries oxygenated blood from the left lung to the left atrium of the heart. The pulmonary arteries and veins are the only ones which are "opposite" as the rest of the bodies veins and arteries. Veins normally carry unoxygenated blood from the body back to the heart/lungs. Arteries normally carry oxygenated blood to the body from the heart. Pulmonary arteries carry unoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs and pulmonary veins carry oxygenated blood from the lungs back to the heart.
Which artery is the exception to the rule that veins carry deoxygenated blood?
The pulmonary arteries leave the right ventricle to travel to the heart, so carry deunoxygenated blood. The name "arteries" is used because the vessels are leaving the heart.The pulmonary veins, conversely, are coming back into the heart, so are veins, but they are carrying oxygenated blood.
