A pulmonary artery is an artery in the pulmonary circulation that carries deoxygenated blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs. The largest pulmonary artery is the main pulmonary artery or
Volume rendering of a high resolution CT scan of the thorax. The anterior thoracic wall, the airways and the pulmonary vessels anterior to the root of the lung have been digitally removed to visualize the different levels of the pulmonary circulation.
(made in (1883)) Anatomy of the horse, with other arteries: spermatic artery (21), next to (posterior) vena cava, venae portae, External iliac artery, and the mesenteric vessels, Internal iliac and renal arteries labeled. The pulmonary artery and pulmonary veins are labelled (4) and (5), respectively.
The pulmonary veins are the veins that transfer oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart. The largest pulmonary veins are the four main pulmonary veins, two from each lung that drain into the left
Computed tomography of a normal lung, with different levels of pulmonary veins.