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Follow the Blood · Heart

Is blood ever actually blue?

Four veins delivering oxygen-rich blood to the left heart.

The simple answer

Freshly oxygenated blood flows from your lungs back to your heart through the pulmonary veins — the mirror-image exception: veins carrying oxygen-rich blood.

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