connects the heart to all cells & body tissues
• Arteries move away from the heart, deliver blood • Veins move towards the heart, collect blood
• Arteries branch and get smaller
• Veins merge and get larger
• Almost all arteries are paired with a same-name vein
• EXCEPT: carotid arteries & jugular veins
• EXCEPT: “bonus” veins: cephalic, basilic, great saphenous
• EXCEPT: hepatic portal system
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(oxygenated blood)
lungs –> pulmonary veins –> left atrium –> bicuspid valve –> left ventricle –> aortic SL valve -> aorta -> body
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