Chapter 35, Problem 2CT

Summary Introduction

To determine:

The reason for the similarities found in oxygen and carbon dioxide content of blood in pulmonary veins and systemic capillaries and along with the same partial pressure between systemic veins and pulmonary arteries.

Introduction:

Veins are the types of blood vessels that carry deoxygenated blood from the living body back to the heart but the pulmonary veins being an exception carry the oxygenated blood from the lungs of the human beings to the heart. The partial pressure of gas oxygen is defined as the measurement of oxygen in arterial blood.