The large blood vessel is called the aorta.
Aorta
aorta
the aorta
veins
2 valves: pulmonary valve- blood leaving from the right ventricle passes through it towards the lungs; aortic valve- blood leaving from the left ventricle passes through it to the body (by way of the aorta)
Artery
Not all blood passes through the kidneys each time, in the way all blood passes through the lungs. About 20% of the blood leaving the heart passes through the kidneys, meaning that all of a persons blood should pass through the kidneys about 12 times every hour.
Oxygenated blood enters the heart in the pulmonary vein. It passes through the left ventricle, before exiting in the aorta.
Aorta
Artery
Dilation of a blood vessel is the term for physiologic widening of the vessel. Abnormal widening of the blood vessel through a weakening of the wall is known as aneurysm.Dilation of a blood vessel means widening of the vessel.
Blood passes through two veins from the liver to the heart. The hepatic vein takes blood from the liver to the vena cava, which completes the journey to the heart.
Arteries carry blood away from the heart. Veins carry blood to the heart.
Oxygen passes from the blood into organs through the wall of capillaries.
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