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The left ventricle pumps blood at a higher pressure because it sends blood all over the body where as the right ventricle pumps to the lungs,

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the left ventricle pumps blood at a higher pressure because it sends blood all over the body were as the right vertricle pumps to the lungs.

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Q: Why must the heart contract very strongly to pump blood from the left ventricle into the aorta?
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List in order the arteries as they leave the heart?

Since both sides of the heart contract at the same time, the right ventricle pumps blood into the pulmonary trunk, and the left ventricle pumps blood into the Aorta.


Which aorta pump blood to left ventricle ascending aorta or descending aorta?

Blood goes in this order... Right Atrium -> Right Ventricle -> Lungs -> Left Atrium -> Left Ventricle -> Ascending Aorta -> Descending Aorta. So neither pump blood to the the Left Ventricle but the Left Ventricle pumps blood to the ascending aorta.


What does the mistral valve do?

Mistral valve forces blood to flow from the left ventricle to the aorta. When the left ventricle contract the mistral closes.


From which part of the heart is blood pumped into the aorta?

The left ventricle pumps blood to the aorta


What chamber pumps bloods into the aorta?

left ventricle


Does the left ventricle receives blood from the aorta?

no that would reverse the flow of blood. blood is squeezed out of the left ventricle through the aorta.


Do the atria con tract last in the heart?

Ventricles contract last, where the right ventricle contract to send deoxygenated blood to the lungs through the pulmonary artery, and the left ventricle contract to send oxygenated blood to the rest of the body via the aorta.


What carries blood under high pressure from the left ventricle?

The pulmonary arteries convey the blood from the right ventricle to the lungs.


What is the large artery that carries blood out from the left ventricle?

The Aorta


When the ventricles contract where is the blood pumped?

In a human heart when the right ventricle contracts the blood is pumped into the pulmonary artery, which goes to the lungs and returns to the left atrium via the pulmonary vein. The left atrium pumps the blood into left ventricle which pumps the blood to the aorta. From the aorta the blood is transported to the rest of the body.


What happens when your ventricles of your heart contact?

When the ventricles of your heart contract, blood is pumped out of the heart into the major arteries. The left ventricle pumps blood into the aorta, and the right ventricle into the pulmonary artery.


Blood is pumped from the left ventricle to the what?

Right Antrium