Assertion: vein | /r/HasProperty | vessel
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text: He wrote, "...the blood doth enter into every member through the arteries, and does return by the veins, and that the veins are the vessels and ways by which the blood is returned to the heart itself; and that the blood in the members and extremities does pass from the arteries into the veins (either mediately by an anastomosis, or immediately through the porosities of the flesh, or both ways) as before it did in the heart and thorax out of the veins, into the arteries...
text: An important difference to remember is with the pulmonary circulation, going to the lungs, the veins are still the vessels coming back to the heart and the arteries always are going away.
text: Veins are vessels that transport deoxygenated blood from the periphery back into the heart.
text: A blood reservoir is an organ or vessel that holds large proportions of blood, and veins are vessels termed as the blood reservoirs of the body.