Shingles, also known as zoster or herpes zoster, is a painful skin rash caused by the same virus responsible for chicken pox: the varicella zoster virus. Even if you had chicken pox in the past, you can still contract shingles.aused by the herpes virus, the earliest symptoms of both conditions include headache, fever, a general feeling of malaise, sore throat and swelling of the face. Chicken pox is very common in children, being actually a children's disease. It is very contagious and it is actually nothing but a viral infection.
The pulmonary vein is the vessel transporting oxygen-rich blood from the lungs to the left atrium. A common misconception is that all veins carry de-oxygenated blood. It is more appropriate to classify veins as vessels carrying blood to the heart.
Blood vessels which carry blood back to the heart from the rest of the body are called veins. The main vein is the vena cava, which carries deoxygenated blood to the right atrium.The pulmonary vein carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium.The arteries are blood vessels which carry blood away from the heart. The main artery is the aorta, which carries oxygenated blood from the heart to the rest of the body.The pulmonary artery carries deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle to the lungs.he blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart are called veins. (Blood does not return to the heart until it passes through the spleen, where dead blood cells go.). 3 people found this useful. Edit.