Monday, March 8, 2010

Pumping Cycle

The sturcture of the heart allows blood to move through the circulatory system in only one direction.
Your heart muscle will pump for more than 2 billion times during your lifetime.
Blood enters the heart's right and left atria from the
VEINS ( A blood vessel that carries the blood back to the heart ).
When the atria begins to pump or squeeze the right and left ventricles are relaxed and are not pumping. These chambers receive blood from the atria.
Source: http://www.ihcworld.com/histowiki/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=heart_diastole.png
Then, the ventricles start to pump blood into two large
ARTERIES (A blood vessel that carries blood back to the heart leading to the body and lungs) .
When the venticles are pumping the atria are relaxed.Blood returning from the body enters the atria and the entire pumping cycle begins again.

Source: http://www.mountnittany.org/assets/images/krames/106422.jpg

How do the ventricles receive blood?

1 comment:

  1. the left atrium through the mitral valve sends blood to the left ventricle and the right atrium through the tricuspid valve sends blood to the right ventricle.

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