Do arteries carry oxygenated blood or deoxygenated blood?

If you think of the vessels of the body..and look at the water supply for a large city. You have the water pipes carrying “clean” water to the tap and you have the sewer pipes carry “not so clean water” away from the living quarters. The living quarters is the living tissues and the water is the blood. read more

Arteries carry blood away from the heart. Veins carry blood toward the heart. Whether or not that blood is oxygenated is not exclusively related to whether or not it's an artery or a vein. For example, the pulmonary artery carries deoxygenated blood while the carotid artery carries oxygenated blood. read more

Explain. All arteries do not carry oxygenated blood because the arteries from the right ventricle carry deoxygenated blood to the lungs. read more

All arteries carry oxygenated blood with the exception of the pulmonary artery from the right side of the heart to the lungs, which does not. Yes. Most arterial blood is oxygenated. There are two exceptions to that rule. One is the pulmonary artery which carries deoxygenated blood. The other is the umbilical vein which also carries deoxygenated blood. read more