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What is the structure between two heart chambers that allows blood to go only one way?
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The human heart is composed of four chambers. They are the right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium and left ventricle. The heart also contains four valves that ensure that blood flows continuously through the heart in the correct direction. Oxygen depleted blood is channeled from the body into the heart through the Inferior and Superior vena cava. It first enters the right atrium then passes through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle. From there the blood is forced through the pulmonary valve into the pulmonary arteries and on to the lungs where it dumps carbon dioxide and picks up oxygen.
The newly oxygenated blood is returned from the lungs to the heart via the pulmonary veins. It enters the left atrium, is forced through the bicuspid valve and into the left ventricle. From there the blood passes through the aortic valve into the aorta (the body's largest artery) which branches into several smaller arteries as it circulates the freshly oxygenated throughout the body
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