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Heart ventricle

Heart ventricle

The lower right and left chambers of the heart. The right pumps venous blood into the lungs and the left pumps oxygenated blood into the systemic arterial circulation.


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Why bronchial circ. dumps deoxygenated blood in2 L. atrium?

In human heart, oxygenated blood goes into left atrium by vena pulmonalis, but deoxygenated blood comes into R atrium, then goes into R ventricle, and finally leaves heart going through arteria pulmonalis. In Chondrychthyes and Osteichthyes(fishes), ...

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by miloshic
Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:16 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Why bronchial circ. dumps deoxygenated blood in2 L. atrium?
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Re: Artery vs Vein

... cavae, just before the venae cavae open into the right atrium of the heart. why? Arteries for the immense pressure when blood is pump out of from the left ventricle. As it flows from the heart-artery-arteries-arterioles-capilaries-venules-veins-vein-heart ...

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by chanhankiang
Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:01 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Artery vs Vein
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Ventricle Size

I was wondering which of heart ventricles was larger? I can't seem to find that information anywhere, and the right side appears larger in my textbook. :?:

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by Schnarr
Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:27 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Ventricle Size
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resistance of flow

If you exclude the heart, aorta is the blood vessel with highest blood throughput. If the heart is included, ... it's probably up to how you measure it - the left heart (or more precisely, the left ventricle) pumps blood to aorta, which in turn leads it to other parts of the body, save ...

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by biohazard
Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:41 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: resistance of flow
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Heart

... Lungs ----> Pulmonary vein ----->Left auricle----->L.ventricle----->vena cava--->arteries----->arteioles----->||veinules----->veins---->To right auricle Both ventricle(R & L) pumps heart.... Pumping of auricles is an reflex action... Not All Veins carry deoxygenated ...

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by Amrik
Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:50 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Heart
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