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With one exception, veins carry oxygen-poor blood back to the heart. The largest and last blood vessel they pass through is called the superior vena cava. The exception is the Pulmonary Vein, which carries oxygen-rich blood from the lungs to the heart to be pumped to the rest of the body.
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What blood vessels carries oxygenated blood to the heart?
The coronary arteries carry blood to the muscle that makes up the heart but this blood comes directly from the large artery called the aorta.Otherwise arteries always carry blood way from the heart and veins carry it back. As far as if it they carry oxygen or not, veins carry blood back from the body without oxygen and back from the lungs with oxygen.
What are any tubes that carry blood called?
Blood vessels are the tubes that carry blood. The three types of blood vessels are arteries, capillaries, and veins.
What usually carries blood away from the heart?
veinsAnswerArteries are the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart, not veins. Veins are the blood vessels that carry blood towards the heart. The only exceptions being the pulmonary and umbilical veins, both of which carry oxygenated blood.
What are the vessels called that carry blood away from the heart?
arteries
Blood is carried away from the heart in arteries or veins?
It depends. The blood that is being carried away from to the body is oxygenated blood and the blood that is being carried away from the heart and heading towards the lungs is called deoxgenated blood. OXYGENATED blood has a high percentage of oxygen and deoxygenated blood has a low percentage of oxygen.
