Where do veins carry blood?

1 Answer
Nov 11, 2017

Most veins carry blood away from tissue capillaries of different organs to the heart .

Explanation:

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A vein from lungs to heart carries oxygenated blood; in all other cases a vein carries deoxygenated blood.

Then there are portal veins which carry deoxygenated blood from one organ's tissue capillary to another organ, second organ is neither heart nor lung.