Let's follow the flow of blood starting at the Aorta, the aorta is the main blood vessle that carries O2 rich blood to the vital organs, organs, systems, extremities, muscles, and most importantly the brain. All the above mentioned use the oxygen and give off carbon dioxide as a by product. The CO2 , carried by the blood travels back to the heartand enters the Right Atrium, another beat of the heart, the b;ood now moves through the tricuspid valve to the right ventricle. Remember, this is oxygen poor blood so withamother beat the blood mooves through the pulmonary arteries, (left & Right), to the lungs. Inside the lungs the blood drops off CO2 and picks up O2 using a process called osmosis*. The blood at the moment has little pressure so it goes back into the heart through the Pulmonary Veins into the Left Atrium. A beat of the heart sends it into the Left Ventricle. Around this chamber is a large muscle called the Myo Cardium and this muscle gives the pressure needed to push this blood oround the entire body.
*Osmosis, the diffusion of water or another solvent through a selectively permeable membrane. This membrane is like a sieve, allowing solvent molecules, which are small, to pass through it, but preventing larger molecules dissolved in the solvent from passing through.
Blood is transferred throughout the body via the heart, this is called systemic circulation. The heart is made up of 4 chambers. The right atria, the right ventricle, and the left atria, and left ventricle. The right side of the heart gets the oxygen poor blood ( the blood that already cycled through the body). The oxygen poor bood enters the right atrim through the Superior vena cava and the Inferior vena cava. When the heart relaxes after a contraction then the blood leaves the right atrium, passes through the tricuspid valve (a flap that seperates the two chambers) and fills the right ventricle. When the ventricle is full the tricuspid valve closes. Now the blood is in the right ventricle, but it is so full the blood has to go somewhere so it pushes through the pulmonary valve and goes to the pulmonary artery then right to the lungs to be filled with oxygen. From the lungs the bood is now oxygen rich (filled with O2). The blodd leaves the lungs by the pulmonary veins and enters the left atrium, as the heart relaxes the tricuspid valve opens and the left ventricle fills with blood. When the left ventricle gets full the blood is pushed through the aorta valve and goes in to the aorta. From the aorta the blood enters into systemic circulation and spreads oxygen rich blood throughout the body. And when there is no more oxygen left in the blood it traveles back to the heart to start the cycle all over.
De-oxygenated blood is dark red. Oxygenated blood is bright red. Both enter the heart- the former enters the right heart; the latter enters the left heart.
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Veins carry deoxygenated blood back the heart.
Depleted blood enters and leaves the right side of the heart.
Actually it is the Left Atrium
It flows through the pulmonary vein toward the heart.
The pulmonary vein enters the left atrium of the heart.
Deoxygenated blood return form the body to the heart via the Superior and Inferior Vena Cavas, which join together to enter the Heart's Right Atrium.
Right Atrium.
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