PHYSIOLOGY
GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY
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carries blood away from the heart.
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carries blood to the heart.
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has oxygenated blood.
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has deoxygenated blood.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Arteries: These strong, muscular blood vessels carry oxygen-rich blood from your heart to your body. They handle a large amount of force and pressure from your blood flow but don’t carry a large volume of blood.
Detailed explanation-2: -Listen to pronunciation. (AR-tuh-ree) A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to tissues and organs in the body.
Detailed explanation-3: -Arteries carry blood away from the heart and veins carry blood back to the heart. The circulatory system carries oxygen, nutrients, and hormones to cells, and removes waste products, like carbon dioxide. These roadways travel in one direction only, to keep things going where they should.
Detailed explanation-4: -Arterial blood is the oxygenated blood in the circulatory system found in the pulmonary vein, the left chambers of the heart, and in the arteries. It is bright red in color, while venous blood is dark red in color (but looks purple through the translucent skin). It is the contralateral term to venous blood.