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Atrial systole -- The atrium contracts, then the ventricle.
The blood enters throught the heart throught the right and left atria. As the heart contracts, blood flows into the ventricles and then out from the ventricles.
Blood flows into the relaxed atria while the ventricles contract. <rephrased> The ventricles contract, carrying blood into the aorta, and blood flows into the relaxed atria.
Blood flows to the heart when the ventricle contracts
Atria don't do nearly the same amount of work of contraction as do the ventricles. They are therefore relatively thin walled. Most of the blood that flows from the atria to the ventricles flows passively, and so the atria function mostly as a reservoir for blood volume.
Atria don't do nearly the same amount of work of contraction as do the ventricles. They are therefore relatively thin walled. Most of the blood that flows from the atria to the ventricles flows passively, and so the atria function mostly as a reservoir for blood volume.
Aotra
left ventricle
a Valve which only flows one way
At diastole the muscles of the atria and ventricles relax and blood flows into the heart. Therefore the atria and ventricles and at rest together during diastole.
Yes, atria contracts before the ventricles.
The atria Actually, it is the contractions (squeezing) of the ventricles (the lower parts of the heart), not the atria (the upper parts), that do the pumping. That's why the lower part of the heart is larger, and the muscular walls are thicker. The atria receive the blood from the body and pump it down into the ventricles.