ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -True or False: Pulmonary veins take unoxygenated blood away from the heart. The answer is FALSE. The pulmonary artery takes unoxygenated blood away from the heart to the lungs to become oxygenated and then back through the pulmonary vein.

Detailed explanation-2: -The pulmonary arteries and the pulmonary veins are the vessels of the pulmonary circulation; which means they are responsible for carrying the oxygenated blood to the heart from the lungs and carrying the deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs.

Detailed explanation-3: -The pulmonary arteries carry deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle into the alveolar capillaries of the lungs to unload carbon dioxide and take up oxygen. These are the only arteries that carry deoxygenated blood, and are considered arteries because they carry blood away from the heart.

Detailed explanation-4: -Deoxygenated blood from the lower half of the body enters the heart from the inferior vena cava while deoxygenated blood from the upper body is delivered to the heart via the superior vena cava. Both the superior vena cava and inferior vena cava empty blood into the right atrium.

Detailed explanation-5: -Complete answer: Veins are the blood vessels that conduct blood from different body parts back to the heart. All veins are carried deoxygenated blood except the pulmonary vein which carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.