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Keywords: Capillaries, Deoxygenated, Vessel, Heart, Pulmonary

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Large, thin-walled vessels that direct dexygenated blood from the tissues back to the heart.

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Veins are tubes inside the body that bring the blood back to the heart. They are bigger than capillaries.

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channels through which fluid flows toward the heart.

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Blood vessels that carry blood from the arms, legs, heald and body organs back to the heart.

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Blood vessel that carries blood toward the heart

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Membranous tubes that form a branching system and carry blood to the heart. Also called blood vessels. Reference: H1

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Thin-walled vessels returning blood to heart; form capacitance component of circulation. With venules, contain approximately 70% of circulating blood volume.

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Any of a branching system of blood vessels through which blood returns to the heart.

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Thin-walled vessels that carry blood to the heart. Units of the circulatory system that carry blood to the heart.

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The vessels that bring blood back to the heart.

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Blood vessels that carry blood from the rest of the body back to the heart.

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blood vessels which carry blood back to the heart

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Thin-walled vessels that carry deoxygenated blood to the heart (the pulmonary vein is the only exception).

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Branching vessels or tubes carrying blood from various parts of the body to the heart.

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The blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart.

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Blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart

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Thin-walled blood vessels that receive blood from capillaries and return it to the heart.

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Blood vessels that carry blood, usually deoxygenated (except in the case of the pulmonary vein), to the heart.

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vessels that return blood from capillaries to the heart

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the prominent lines of connective tissue for carrying water and nutrients.

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Part of the body's system which transports returning blood to the heart after the oxygen has been used by the body.

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Blood vessels which return blood to the heart.

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Blood vessels that carry blood lacking oxygen and food back to the heart and lungs.

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the tubular branching vessels that carry blood from the capillaries toward the heart.

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Blood vessels that carry waste-laden blood from body organs and tissues to the heart.

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thin-walled, valved tubes which carry blood back to the heart Humans as organisms

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Blood vessels that return used blood back to the heart where it can be pumped to the lungs for re-oxygenation.

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blood vessels that return blood from tissues to the heart

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