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The aorta (largest artery in the body) carries oxygenated blood from the heart to the body. From the aorta, the oxygenated blood will eventually travel through smaller and smaller arteries in your body, until eventually entering the capillaries to be delivered to the desired area.
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How is the pulmonary artery unique?
Its the only artery that carries oxygenated blood.
Why is umbilical artery called an artery when it carries oxygenated and deoxygenated blood?
An artery is the vessel that carries blood away from the heart. The pulmonary artery carries only deoxygenated blood after birth.
What is the Major artery that carries oxygenated blood away from the heart is the?
pulmonary artery
An artery is a blood vessel that only does what?
Arteries Cary oxygenated blood. This is usually to organs or muscles with the exception of the pulmonary artery wich carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart.
Does the pulmonary artery carry oxygenated blood or deoxygenated blood?
The pulmonary artery carries oxygenated blood. You can remember this easily because all ARTERIES carry oxygenated blood and all VIENS carry deoxygenated blood.
What is an artery's purpose?
An artery carries oxygenated blood. A vein carries DEoxygenated blood.
How is the pulmonary artery unique?
Its the only artery that carries oxygenated blood.
Why is umbilical artery called an artery when it carries oxygenated and deoxygenated blood?
An artery is the vessel that carries blood away from the heart. The pulmonary artery carries only deoxygenated blood after birth.
Which blood carry coronary artery?
The coronary artery carries oxygenated blood to the heart.
What artery carries oxygenated blood to the body?
The Aorta
The coronary artery what does it do?
It carries oxygenated blood to the heart.
What is the Major artery that carries oxygenated blood away from the heart is the?
pulmonary artery
How do you describe the pulmonary artery?
All the arteries carry oxygenated blood towards the heart, but pulmonary artery is the only artery in the body which carries de-oxygenated blood. It carries deoxygentaed blood from the heart to the lungs for oxygenation.
What carries oxygenated blood to the body called?
Arteries are what carry oxygenated blood to the muscles and tissues.
An artery is a blood vessel that only does what?
Arteries Cary oxygenated blood. This is usually to organs or muscles with the exception of the pulmonary artery wich carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart.
Which artery doesnt carry oxygen?
All arteries (the red blood vessels) carry oxygenated blood. it's the viens (the blue blood vessels) that don't carry oxygenated blood. However the Pulmonary artery carries Deoxygenated blood to the lungs to be reoxygenated, as it carries blood away from the heart it is called a Artery.
Are arteries oxygenated?
No. As arteries are the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart, they regularly tend to have oxygenated blood. But in pulmonary circulation, the pulmonary artery carries de oxygenated blood from the heart to both the left and right lungs. Pulmonary artery is an artery that carries de oxygenated blood.
