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Blood entering the left ventricle is rich in oxygen. In contrast, oxygen-poor blood enters the right ventricle.

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When blood enters the left ventricle is the blood high in oxygen or low in oxygen?

Oxygen goes from the muscles to the right atrium, from there it goes to the right ventricle and into the lungs then it passes from the lungs to through the left atrium and into the left ventricle where it is recirculated through the body.


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left ventricle Blood enters the left & right atria. Blood entering the left ventricle came from the left atrium. Blood from the body enters the right atrium. From there it is pumped to the right ventricle, through the lungs, to the left atrium, to the left ventricle, then throughout the body. Then back to the right atrium...


Trace the flow of bloodthrogh the heart?

Begins at left side of heart, oxygen rich blood enters left atrium to left ventricle then to body via the aorta. From the right atrium oxygen depleted blood enters the right ventricle which pumps it through the pulmonary artery to the lungs where it is enriched with oxygen again and passes on to the left atrium.


How is the left ventricle different from the right ventricle?

The heart is divided into four chambers, the right atrium and the right ventricle, and the left atrium and the left ventricle. Blood that is oxygen poor and high in carbon dioxide enters the heart through the right atrium and is then pumped out to go to the lungs via the right ventricle. The left atrium then pumps the newly oxygenated blood into the left ventricle, which then sends the blood to all parts of the body. So, in short, the right ventricle pumps oxygen poor blood to the lungs and the left ventricle pumps oxygen rich blood to the whole body.


How does blood travel through the heart?

Blood enters the heart through the right atrium, then flows into the right ventricle. From there, it is pumped to the lungs to pick up oxygen. Oxygenated blood returns to the heart through the left atrium, then moves into the left ventricle. Finally, the left ventricle pumps the oxygen-rich blood out to the rest of the body.


Where does oxygen rich blood enters first?

Oxygen-rich blood enters the left atrium of the heart from the lungs through the pulmonary veins. It then travels to the left ventricle before being pumped out to the rest of the body through the aorta.


Where does oxygen enter blood?

Oxygen enters the blood through the alveoli in the lungs. It diffuses across the thin walls of the alveoli into the surrounding capillaries where it binds to hemoglobin in red blood cells for transportation throughout the body.


Where the blood takes the oxygen?

Answer: Oxygen-depleted blood from the body enters the right atrium through two veins, the superior vena cava and the inferior vena cava. The blood then passes to the right ventricle. The right ventricle pumps the deoxygenated blood to the lungs, through the pulmonary artery. After the blood loses carbon dioxide and picks up oxygen in the lungs, it flows through pulmonary veins to the left atrium. From the left atrium the newly oxygenated blood enters the left ventricle. The left ventricle is the main pumping chamber, sending blood through the aorta to all of the body except the lungs.


The blood now rich in oxygen re enters the heart though the pulmonary?

When blood that is rich in oxygen re enters the heart, the blood enters through the pulmonary valve. The pulmonary valve brings the oxygen rich blood to the pulmonary trunk of the pulmonary artery.


How does the blood travel through the heart?

You get deoxygenated or impure blood from the whole body. It enters the right atrium. Right atrium pumps the blood in right ventricle. From right ventricle blood goes to your lungs. Here the blood gets oxygenated or get purified. Then it enters your left atrium. Left atrium pumps the blood in left ventricle. Left ventricle pumps the blood to your whole body.


How does the circulatory system distribute the oxygen to the rest of the body?

Oxygen deprived blood from the vena cava enters the right atrium of the heart and flows through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle where it is pumped through the pulmonary semilunar valve into the pulmonary arteries which go to the lungs. Pulmonary veins return the now oxygen-rich blood to the heart, where it enters the left atrium before flowing through the mitral valve into the left ventricle. Also, from the left ventricle the oxygen-rich blood is pumped out via the aorta, and on to the rest of the body.


Where does the blood that enters the atrium come from?

Oxygenated blood from the lungs enters the left atrium. The blood then moves from there to the left ventricle, aorta, and on the rest of the body.