Question

This is a question on the circulatory system. I don't understand how the pathway that the blood goes through in the heart makes it oxygenated. Could someone pleas explain to me what each part does and how when it goes to the lungs it gets oxygenated?

Answer 1

deoxygenated blood is pumped back to the heart with the superior vena cava and inferior vena cava. Blood is then in the right atrium then it is pushed to the right ventricle in the heart. it is the pumped through the pulmonary artery to the lungs(the pulmonary artery is the only artery that carries deoxygenated blood). In the lungs blood is pumped to the cappilleries in the bronchus where oxygen in the air is passed through to the blood with heamoglobin and thus now the blood is oxygenated. The blood is the pumped brought back to the heart with the pulmonary vein(the pulmonary vein is the only vein to carry oxygenated blood).It flows into the left atrium where it is then pushed down into the left ventricle and is then pumped up through the aorta to the whole body.

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