What differentiates veins from arteries?

Veins take the blood from the other parts of the body and carry it back to the heart. Then the blood is then moved to the lungs. Then the lungs will supply this blood with more oxygen. Veins have thinner smaller walls than arteries. Arteries carry the blood away from the heart to the other cells, tissues and organs in the body before the veins will then take it back. Arteries are much bigger. Arteries have another major job to do.

They release the wastes and toxins found in the blood and the arteries takes them away. A good way to remember the direction that the blood travels in arteries is that arteries starts with “a” and they carry blood away from the heart which also starts with “a.”