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What veins carry deoxygenated blood?

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All veins except for the pulmonary vein.
The heart pumps oxygenated blood around the body by the arteries which then enter tissues through tiny capillaries. Once the oxygen has diffused across into the cells, carbon dioxide then bonds to the red blood cells instead.
Now the blood has very little oxygen and lots of carbon dioxide. It is transported back to the heart by veins ( of which the biggest is the vena cava) to be pumped up to the lungs
Any vessel carrying oxygenated blood was an artery whilst any vessel carrying deoxygenated blood was a vein. But, with the lungs, it is reversed. The pulmonary artery takes deoxygenated blood to the lungs where it is oxygenated before being brought back to the heart by the pulmonary vein.
As there are these two exceptions, it is best to think of veins as being vessel that go into the heart ( bringing deoxygenated blood in normally and oxygenated blood in after a trip to the lungs) and arteries as going out ( out to the rest of the body with oxygenated blood usually and out to the lungs with deoxygenated blood).
So, to conclude veins almost always carry oxygenated blood, unless they lead to the heart from the lungs ( pulmonary vein ).

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