POTENCY: What is the pattern for return of sexual function after prostate surgery? Usually erections return slowly beginning as partial erections 3 to 6 months after surgery and continue to improve for 18 to 36 months. There is considerable variation.
Arteries (from Greek á¼ÏÏÎ·ÏÎ¯Î± (artÄria) , meaning windpipe, artery) are blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart. While most arteries carry oxygenated blood, there are two exceptions to this, the pulmonary and the umbilical arteries.rteries carry oxygenated blood away from the heart to the tissues, except for pulmonary arteries, which carry blood to the lungs for oxygenation. (Usually veins carry deoxygenated blood to the heart but the pulmonary veins carry oxygenated blood.) There are two unique arteries.
What exactly is an artery? Arteries, like veins, are tube-shaped vessels that carry blood in the body. The chief difference between arteries and veins is the job that they do. Arteries carry oxygenated blood away from the heart to the body, and veins carry oxygen-poor blood back from the body to the heart. Your body also contains other, smaller blood vessels. Here is how blood travels in vessels through the body: