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  2. Veins: Anatomy and Function - Cleveland Clinic

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    Function. What do veins do? Veins have two main purposes. One purpose is to collect oxygen-poor blood throughout your body and carry it back to your heart. The other purpose is to carry oxygen-rich blood from your lungs to your heart.

  3. Your venous system is a network of veins that carry blood back to your heart from other organs. We’ll explain the basic structure of a vein before diving into different types of veins and their...

  4. Veins are the blood vessels that collect the deoxygenated blood from the various tissues and organs of the body and transport it back to the heart. The blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart are veins.

  5. What Are Veins and How Do They Work? - ThoughtCo

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    Veins are elastic blood vessels that transport blood from various regions of the body to the heart. Veins are components of the cardiovascular system, which circulates blood to provide nutrients to the cells of the body.

  6. Overview of the Venous System - Overview of the Venous System -...

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    Veins return blood to the heart from all the organs of the body. Arteries carry blood with oxygen and nutrients away from the heart to the rest of the body. The large veins parallel the large arteries and often share the same name.

  7. Vein - Wikipedia

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    Veins (/ veɪn /) are blood vessels in the circulatory system of humans and most other animals that carry blood towards the heart. Most veins carry deoxygenated blood from the tissues back to the heart; exceptions are those of the pulmonary and fetal circulations which carry oxygenated blood to the heart.

  8. The function of blood vessels is to deliver blood to the organs and tissues in your body. The blood supplies them with the oxygen and nutrients they need to function. Blood vessels also carry waste products and carbon dioxide away from your organs and tissues.

  9. 18.3B: Veins - Medicine LibreTexts

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    Veins are blood vessels that carry blood towards the heart. Most carry deoxygenated blood from the tissues back to the heart, but the pulmonary and umbilical veins both carry oxygenated blood to the heart.

  10. Veins - Anatomy, Function, and More - Verywell Health

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    Veins are a type of blood vessel that carry deoxygenated blood back to the heart from various parts of the body. Explore how different veins look, work, and help support the cardiovascular system.

  11. Veins - Physiopedia

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    Features to aide venous blood flow forwards to the heart. Veins have one-way valves inside that allow for blood flow to move toward the heart. Veins contain only smooth muscle cells. These muscle cells reside within the tunica media along with elastic fibers and connective tissue.