Heart Flashcards

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Atriums are

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in the upper part of the heart

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Ventricles

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Lower part of the heart

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Characteristics and purpose of arteries

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Transports blood away from the heart
Made of strong muscular and elastic walls because blood pumped at high pressure wider lumen for blood flow and have valves

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Characteristics and purpose of capilleries

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thin and small lumen to diffuse waste products and neutrients , permeable
, lower blood pressure for time for neutrients to diffuse

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characteristics and purpose of veins

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biggest lumen- low pressure , thinner walls less elastic and muscle , they have valves unlike the others , brings blood to the heart

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blood path in the heart

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. Blood enters the heart By pulmanory vein (left - Oxygenated ) and Vena Cava ( Right - deoxygenated) Into their Atriums
.The 2 atria contract , pushing blood into the ventricles , then they contract to push blood to the Pulmanory artery (right , to lungs) and the Aorta (to rest of the body)

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