What does each side of the human heart do?

Answer 1

Mitral valve

Also known as the "bicuspid valve" contains two flaps. The mitral valve gets its name from the resemblance to a bishop's mitre (a type of hat). It allows the blood to flow from the left atrium into the left ventricle. It is on the left side of the heart and has two cusps.

A common complication of rheumatic fever is thickening and stenosis of the mitral valve.

Tricuspid valve

The tricuspid valve is the three-flapped valve on the right side of the heart, between the right atrium and the right ventricle which stops the backflow of blood between the two. It has three cusps.

Answer 2

The right side of the heart takes in deoxygenated blood and pumps it to the lungs to be oxygenated, and the left side receives the oxygenated blood from the lungs and pumps it away to the rest of the body

Answer 3

The heart is a pump. The right side is composed of the right atrium and right ventricle, and correspondingly, the left side is composed of the left atrium and left ventricle. Atria(plural of atrium) receive blood from the rest of the body (deoxygenated blood in right atrium and oxygenated blood in left atrium) and pump that blood through the atrio-ventricular (AV) valves (one in between each atria and ventricle --> 2 total in heart) to the ventricles. The ventricles also pump blood, but the destination of that blood differs between the two sides of the heart. The right ventricle pumps the blood that it receives from the right atrium trough the pulmonary semi-lunar valveand into the pulmonary trunk/artery. This artery carries the deoxygenated blood to the lungs for oxygenation. The oxygenated blood returns to the left atrium via the pulmonary veins. The left atrium then pumps this oxygenated blood to the left ventricle which pumps the oxygenated blood through the aortic semi-lunar valve and into the aorta. The aorta is the largest vessel in the body and it carries the oxygenated blood to the rest of the body. The flow of blood through the heart can thus be summarized as follows:

Inferior Vena Cava (deoxygenated blood) --> R. atrium --> R. AV valve --> R. ventricle --> Pulmonary semilunar valve --> lungs --> L. atrium (oxygenated blood) --> L. AV valve --> L. ventricle --> Aortic semi-lunar valve --> AORTA --> body

Answer 4

The right side of the heart pumps deoxygenated blood from the body to the lungs. The left side of the heart pumps oxygenated blood from the lungs to the body.

Answer 5

The left side of the heart pumps blood through almost the whole body. The right side of the heart only pumps blood to the lungs.

Answer 6

The left side of your heart receives oxygenated blood from the lungs in the Atrium, transfers into your left ventricle, and then is pushed out into the body via arteries.

Answer 7

Your left ventricle pumps oxygen rich blood throughout the body while the left atrium receives the oxygen rich blood from the lungs.

Answer 8

it puts out oxygen