Blood Flow through the Heart Step by Step Discussion
Position of Heart:
Shape and Measurement of Heart:
Shape: pyramidal or conical,
Length: 12cm,
Width: 9cm.
Weight:
Adult males: 280-340gm,
Adult females: 230-280gm.
Order of Blood Flow Through the Heart:
The blood flow process through the heart has presented in the below:
- Through the two largest veins of the body, the superior vena cava, and inferior vena cava, the right atrium receives deoxygenated blood from the whole body.
- This blood flows from the right atrium into the right ventricle through the right atrioventricular orifice.
- From the right ventricle, blood is pumped into the pulmonary trunk (pulmonary arteries).
- Finally, the left and right pulmonary arteries carry the deoxygenated blood to the lungs where blood is oxygenated (exchanges of gases: Carbon dioxide is excreted and oxygen is absorbed).
- Two pulmonary veins from each lung carry oxygenated blood back to the left atrium.
- The blood from the left atrium flows into the left ventricle through the left atrioventricular orifice.
- From the left ventricle, the blood is pumped into the ascending aorta and then into the systematic circulation.
(Note: from the sequences of events just described above it can be seen that the blood passes from the right to the left side of the heart via the lungs or pulmonary circulation).
Blood Flow or Supply of the Heart:
It is discussed in the following:
Arterial Supply:
The heart is supplied with arterial blood by the two coronary arteries (right and left) which arise from the ascending aorta immediately above the aortic valve. The right and left coronary arteries form a vast network of arteries and capillaries throughout the heart.
Blood Drainage:
Most of the venous blood is collected into several small veins that join to form the coronary sinus, which opens into the right atrium.
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