What is the colour of oxygen-poor blood?
Is the colour of oxygen-poor blood blue/purple or is this inaccurate?
Is the colour of oxygen-poor blood blue/purple or is this inaccurate?
1 Answer
Mar 20, 2018
Yes it is inaccurate, cause the blood can either be dark-red (poor oxygenated blood) or red (oxygenated blood)
Explanation:
arteries - red (carries oxygenated rich blood [red])
veins - blue (carries poor oxygenated red [dark red])
Blood in the veins has very little oxygen and is a dark red color that looks almost blue when covered by your skin..
The arteries have bright red blood because it has a lot of oxygen in it that is being carried throughout the body to be used by tissues..
