Assertion: vein's artery | /r/CapableOf | carry air
Facets:
value: to the lungs
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to tissues
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: from more blood
type: OTHER
value: to the right ventricle
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to blood
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: These air-carrying vessels were the pulmonary veins, which brought air to the left ventricle, and the pulmonary artery, which carried air to the right ventricle and blood to the lungs.
text: Galen contradicted Erasistratus before him by proposing that arteries carried both air and blood, rather than air alone.
text: According to a paper in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Galen thought there were two systems: one in which the liver, not the heart, produced blood that was distributed in the body centrifugally, and another where arteries carried air from the lungs and more blood to tissues.