Arterial blood oxygen saturation of haemoglobin. The difference in the oxygen content of the blood between the arterial blood and the venous blood is known as the arteriovenous oxygen difference. Arterial blood Arterial blood is the oxygenated blood in the circulatory system found in the pulmonary vein, the left chambers of the heart, and in the arteries. It is bright red in color, while venous blood is dark red in color (but looks purple through the translucent skin). It is the contralateral term to "venous blood". Framed in the cardiac cycle, often historically accredited to the Wiggers diagram, arterial blood has just
Tapping the Vein (comics) Tapping the Vein (comics) Tapping the Vein is a comic series of Clive Barker's short stories from "The Books of Blood" published by Eclipse Comics between 1989 and 1992. Eclipse Books would continue to adapt various Clive Barker short stories in the early 1990s after the "Tapping the Vein" series came to an end. These include the following: (A single volume featuring just "Dread" was also published) (A single volume featuring just "Revelations" was also published) Advertised, but never published was an adaption of "The Age of Desire" by P. Craig Russell and Tim Bradstreet, from "The Books of Blood