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Which organ's blood flow pattern results in low oxygen levels causing vasoconstriction and high oxygen levels causing vasodilation?
lungs
How can the oxygen you bring in to your body get into your circulatory system?
your lungs have structures called alveoli. The alveoli are surrounded by capillary beds which carry blood. The oxygen enters the alveoli when you inhale. The oxygen then diffuses from high concentration in your alveoli to low concentration the blood in the capillaries surrounding the alveoli.
How does blood carry oxygen around the body?
The blood moves around the body inside the circulatory system. This is made up of arteries, veins and capillaries. The blood keeps moving through these blood vessels because it is pumped by the heart. Valves prevent the blood from flowing backwards. The blood always circulates through the body in the same direction.
How do you explain how oxygen gets into your blood?
We should first start at the beginning. As you know, you breathe oxygen in when you contract your diaphragm and air fills your lungs. The walls of your lungs are filled with capillaries (tiny blood vessels) that look kind of like feathers. If you were to stretch out the entire surface area of the capillaries in your lungs, it would be about equal to the size of a tennis court! So, in the capillaries flows your de-oxygenated blood. It has been on a complete cycle through your body, and is now low on O2. When the erythrocytes (red blood cells) enter the capillaries, the oxygen gets chemically stuck to them. It attaches to a large protein called hemoglobin, a 4 piece protein with a single iron atom at the center. (this explains why an iron deficiency can lead to anemia, or a low red blood cell count) Each red blood cell contains as many, many hemoglobin molecules. The oxygen is at a HIGH concentration in your lungs, and so flows into the LOW concentration in the blood. As the laws of nature would predict, as the red blood cells move into areas of lower oxygen concentration, the oxygen leaves the hemoglobin and enters its new tissue.
High CO2 Count in a blood test?
at a co2 of 100 or so the person will be confused and sleepy. The lungs taking in the oxygen are not exhaling forcefully enough to expel the co2. This is usually due to lung problems such as COPD
What transports blood high in oxygen?
The left atrium receives oxygenated blood from the lungs through the PULMONARY VEIN.
Do we have oxygen poor blood in your lungs?
no you have oxygen high blood.
What kind of blood does lungs have?
Same blood as everywhere else. The difference is the gases in the blood: it enters the lungs low on oxygen and high in CO2, it leaves high in oxygen and low in CO2.
What chamber pumps low oxygen high carbon dioxide blood out of the heart back to the lungs?
The right ventricle pumps blood low in oxygen and high in carbon dioxide back to the lungs.
Which chamber of the heart receives blood with sugar and high oxygen levels?
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What is the blood vessel that carries oxgen-rich blood from the lungs to the heart?
The pulmonary veins are high in oxygen and carry blood to the heart. The heart will then pump it to the rest of the body.
Which heart chamber receives oxygen blood from the body?
Right atrium and right ventricle receive oxygen poor blood. Left atrium and left ventricle receive oxygen rich blood.The right Auricle receives blood from the superior vena cava and right ventricle receives blood inferior vena cavaThe right atrium and right ventricle receives the deoxygenated blood.The right atrium receives deoxygenated blood.= )Right auricle and ventricleright atrium ============ The Superior and Inferior Vena Cava collects the oxygen-poor blood from the body. The oxygen-poor (or deoxygenated) blood than enters the * Right Atrium,* then the Right Ventricle (via the Tricuspic Valve),* from which it enters the Pulmonary Trunk (via the Pulmonary Semilunar Valve)* from where it proceeds to the lungs (through the Pulmonary Arteries)to get re-oxygenated.The right atrium.The right atrium receives deoxygenated blood from the superior vena cava (which ultimately gets all venous blood).
Do arteries usually carry blood high in oxygen?
yes as they come from the lungs which are supplying oxygen to the red blood cells. (oxyhemoglobin)
What is in blood that is being pumped from the heart to the lungs?
Carbon dioxide is at high levels and oxygen at low levels in blood that is being pumped from the heart to the lungs.
Which pulmonary blood vessels carry oxygen-rich blood?
The pulmonary veins carries oxygen rich blood from the lungs to the heart.
How does blood flow through the lungs throughout the body?
Blood is pumped by the heart. Blood leaves the heart via the arteries and returns to the heart via the veins. Blood returning to the heart goes to the lungs where it is oxygenated then pumped around the arteries
Where does the heart pump blood low in oxygen and high in carbon dioxide?
The heart pumps blood low in oxygen and high in carbon dioxide to the lungs, where blood releases carbon dioxide and picks up oxygen.
