BIOC34H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pulmonary Artery, Pulmonary Vein, Pulmonary Circulation

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Most of the things we are already aware of; vasculature is divided into 3 parts: arterial system, capillaries, and venous system. By definition the arterial system: series of blood vessels that is taking blood away from the heart whereas venous system takes the blood to the heart and capillaries are there for exchange system. Arterial system is in red because arteries coming from the heart are carrying oxygenated blood. The blood that is being brought back to the heart is deoxygenated which is blue. One generalized exception to this trend is the pulmonary artery and pulmonary vein. Pulmonary artery so named because it is taking blood from the heart to the lungs (carrying deoxygenated blood) and pulmonary vein is doing the opposite, carrying oxygenated blood. Elastic arteries (conducting arteries) they have a large amount of fibres on their wall. Their function is to take blood from the heart then conduct it to distant arteries.

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