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Which chamber does blood leave the heart?

After leaving the right ventricle, blood goes into the pulmonary artery. This vessel carries the blood to the lungs, where gas exchange occurs.


What is the importance of the aorta?

The aorta is the main artery that oxygenated blood leaving the heart (or the left ventricle) is pumped through to get to the rest of the body.


Is left ventricle an artery?

A left ventricle is not an artery.


How does blood in the artery leaving the right ventricle differ from the blood in the artery leaving the left ventricle to where does the artery leaving the right ventricle carry blood?

The blood leaving the left ventricle is oxygen-rich and the blood coming out of the right ventricle is oxygen-poor. It then goes through the pulmonary arteries and into the capillaries of the lung where the carbon dioxide is exchanged for oxygen.


Where is the aorta?

The aorta is the main artery leaving the heart. It begins at the top of the left ventricle and travels upwards before splitting into smaller arteries.


What does the branchiocephalic artery do?

It carries blood from your left and right ventricle to your heart


How does the heart receive it's blood supply?

Located just above the aortic valves, are the right and left cornary arteries. The right coronary artery mainly supply the right ventricle and the sinoatrial node. The left main artery is divided into the left anterior descending artery and the left circumflex artery. The left anterior descending artery mainly supplies the anterior and septal portion of the heart, namely the left ventricle. The left circumflex artery supplies the lateral walls of the left ventricle.


What is the main artery leading from the heart called?

The aorta is the largest artery in the body and consequently is the largest leaving the heart. The other artery to leave the heart is the pulmonary artery (incidentally the only artery that doesn't carry oxygenated blood).


Where does blood from the right atrium go to in the right side of the heart and then to what artery?

right atrium -> right ventricle -> pulmonary artery -> pulmonary vein -> left atrium -> left ventricle -> aorta


The Vessles connected to the heart venticle?

The right ventricle is connected to the pulmonary artery. The left ventricle is connected to the aorta.


Important of the aorta artery?

The aorta is the main artery that oxygenated blood leaving the heart (or left ventricle) is pumped through to get to the rest of the body. Hope this helps.


What are chambers of the heart that pump blood out of the hear and to the arteries?

the left atrium and left ventricle are the heart chambers which pumps blood toward the artery. . . xD