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Cardiac Blood Flow
Order of structures blood passes by while flowing through CardioPulmonar circuit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Blood in the ________ atrium | left |
| passes through the _________ valve | Mitral |
| to the _________ ventricle. | left |
| It is then pumped through the _______ valve | Aortic |
| to the _________, the largest artery in the body. | Aorta |
| From there, the blood is transported to smaller and smaller arteries, with the smallest of these called__________. | Arterials |
| From there, blood passes into the __________, where gas exchange can take place. | Capillaries |
| The blood then enters the _________, which lead to larger and larger veins. | Venules |
| The large vein that returns blood to the heart is the ____________. | Vena Cava |
| This structure returns blood to the right ________. | Atrium |
| The blood then travels through the ________ valve, | Tricuspid |
| passing into the right _________. | Ventricle |
| It is then pumped from this structure through the ______ ________, | Pulmonary Valve |
| where the blood enters the _______ _______. | Pulmonary Arteries |
| These are the only vessels of this type to carry __________ blood away from the heart, | Deoxygenated |
| and on to the lungs. From there, the blood returns to the heart via the ______ ______, | Pulmonary Veins |
| which lead to the ______ _______ , completing the cardio-pulmonary ciruit. The End! | Left Atrium |