Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The heart
- Arteries take blood Away from
the heart, veINs bring it back IN
to the heart
- Pulmonary
artery
- carries
deoxygenated
blood from heart to
lungs
- Vena cava
- brings deoxygenated
blood from body to
heart
- Chambers of the heart
- Top right chamber of heart- right atrium
- Bottom right chamber of the heart- right ventrium
- Top left chamber of heart- left atrium
- Bottom left chamber of heart- left ventrium
- Aorta
- Carries oxygenated blood
from lungs to heart
- Order-
- Pulmonary vein
- Left atrium
- Left ventricle
- Aorta
- Lungs
- Vena Cava
- Right Atrium
- Right Ventricle
- Pulmonary Artery
- Valves prevent blood flowing the
wrong way through the heart
(backflow)
- The left ventricle muscle wall is
thicker than the right ventricle as
it pushes blood all round the
body