What is the path of blood through the heart including the major blood vessels associated with it?

Answer 1

Blood returns to the heart from the superior and inferior vena cava to the right atrium. It passes into the right ventricle from there where it is then pumped to the lungs via the pulmonary artery. It unloads carbon dioxide and picks up oxygen in the pulmonary capillaries which encompass the alveoli (the small terminal air sacs in the lungs) and is then returned to the heart via the pulmonary vein. It enters the left atria and then into the left ventricle which then pumps the blood into the aorta, the main artery leaving the heart. At the root of the aorta are the coronary ostia, the entrance to the coronary blood vessels, the vessels that supply the myocardium, or heart muscle, with blood. This blood is then returned back to the right heart via the coronary sinus.

Answer 2

Blood comes through the superior and inferior vena cavas to the right atrium(RA). From the RA through the tricuspid valves blood goes to right ventricle (RV). RV pumps blood through the pulmonary artery(PA) to the lungs. From the lungs oxygenated blood comes to the left atrium(LA). via 4 pulmonary veins. LA passes the blood through mitral valve to the left ventricle (LV). LV pumps the blood through the aorta , the largest artery , to all parts of the body except the lungs. De oxygenated blood comes back to the heart via superior and inferior vena cava. That completes the cycle. I hope this will help you.

Answer 3

Bojean, verify your RN books, blood leaves the right area if the heart by ability of the pulmonary artery, then lower back from the lungs by ability of the pulmonary vein. except that good answer.

Answer 4

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