The Heart
The pressure your heart creates by pulsing, pumps blood through the veins
Contraction of surrounding muscles pushes blood through the veins. That's the reason it is advisable to walk a little after being seated for long.
The heart pushes blood to your body through the arteries. The blood returns through the veins. The large, flexible artery into which the heart pumps is the aorta.
the heart pumps the blood round our bodies
Veins!!!!! When the muscles outside the veins move, they squeeze the veins. This pushes the BLOOD towards the heart because one-way valves prevent blood from flowing
Arteries carry blood away from the heart and Veins carry blood back to the heart. When the heart contracts it pushes the blood out through one way valves. There are also little one way valves in the veins and arteries so that the blood will continue to flow in one direction.
Veins don't carry blood at high pressure arteries carry blood at high pressure. Arteries have a thick, elastic muscle layer that can handle high pressure of the blood flowing through them.
arteries and veins
what veins does it pass through
blood enters the right atrium through two large veins, the superior vena cava and the inferior vena cava. the blood is deoxygenated and is bluish in colour. the right atrium contracts and pushes blood through to the right ventricle. this turns contracts and pushes blood to the lungs through the pulmonary vein. when the blood reaches the lungs it receivers oxygen and turns bright red. this oxygenated blood then flows back to the heart and enters through the left atrium via the pulmonary veins. when this chamber contracts, blood is pushed out of the aorta to circulate around the body.
Irish blood runs through these veins
Veins have valves in them which help transport the blood.