Blood Flow In Heart Flashcards
(15 cards)
What does deoxygenated blood travel through to get to the heart?
Vena cava
Where does the blood go after the right atrium?
Right ventricle
What is in between the right atrium and right ventricle?
Tricuspid valve
Where does the right ventricle pump the blood into?
Pulmonary artery
Where does the pulmonary artery take blood and why?
Lungs
Oxygenation
What are the scring thingys inside the aorta and the pulmonary artery called?
And what do they do?
Semilunar valves
Prevent back flow
What is the first chamber in the heart that deoxygenated blood goes into?
Right atrium
How does the blood get back to the heart from the lungs?
Pulmonary vein
Newly oxygenated blood flows through the pulmonary vein into…
Left Atrium
Where does the blood go after the left atrium?
Left ventricle
What does the left ventricle pump the blood into and what is special about it?
Aorta
Thick walls so strong pumping power
Where does the aorta take the blood?
The whole body
What type of blood is in the right ventricle?
Deoxygenated
Which valve connects the left ventricle and atrium?
Bicuspid valve
What type of muscle is the heart made out of?
Cardiac
