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Pulmonary arteries

pulmonary arteries

(Science: anatomy) The pulmonary arteries deliver deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle to the lungs. They are the only arteries in the human body that carry deoxygenated blood.


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... blood to the heart, as has been said here, and in the heart-lung / pulmonary loop, there's oxygenated blood in there. It's more than just a ... definition, though - veins are structurally quite different from arteries or capillaries. Structurally, arteries are set up to carry highly ...

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by Darby
Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:50 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Heart
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Heart

... and they carry it to right auricle---->R.Vetricle--->Pulmonary artery-----> Lungs ----> Pulmonary vein ----->Left auricle----->L.ventricle----->vena cava--->arteries----->arteioles----->||veinules----->veins---->To right auricle Both ...

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by Amrik
Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:50 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Heart
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Heart

... Atrium, which then drains into the right Ventricle. It is pumped to the pulmonary circuit. Which begins with pulmonary trunk, then goes to pulmonary ... blood into the aorta (the body's main artery). From there it goes to arteries, to arterioles, to capillaries, to veinules, to veins, and back ...

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by kjle
Wed Jan 10, 2007 10:08 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Heart
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Heart

... and they carry it to right auricle---->R.Vetricle--->Pulmonary artery----->Lungs---->Pulmonary vein----->Left auricle----->L.ventricle----->vena cava--->arteries----->arteioles----->||veinules----->veins---->To right auricle Both ...

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by sachin
Wed Jan 10, 2007 4:10 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Heart
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Heart

... to let it work? So then the blood in the right ventricle goes into pulmonary arteries, then lungs, and then pulmonary veins carries oxygenated blood into left atirum -->left ...

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by MIA6
Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:56 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Heart
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