Heart and Blood Flow

Carrie Gray
January, 20, 2009
BIO142-0901A-04
Phase 2_ Individual Project
Instructor: Bhatt
Colorado Technical
University Online
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How the

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• 1.Right and left Web site:
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atrium, (upper)
responsible for
collecting blood as
it travels through
the heart.
• 2. Right and left
ventricles, (lower)
responsible for
pumping blood out
of the heart to the
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 Heart Anatomy cont.
Superio
r vena
cava

pulmonar aorta
y artery

Corona
ry
arteries
Inferior
vena cava
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 Coronary arteries
Right and left coronary
arties

Two major coronary

arteries branch off
from the aorta near
the point where the
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ventricle meet:
 Blood Flow

Abdallah, Hasan (nd.). How the Heart Works: Blood Flow

Diagram. Retrieved January 20, 2009, from The
Children's Heart Institute Web site:
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Electrical System

The natural pacemaker of the heart is

called the sinoatrial node (SA
node). It is located in the right atrium.
Superior
vena
cava
Circulation
Axillary
Pulmona
artery
ry artery
The blood vessels
Inferior form a closed
vena circuit of tubes
cava heart that transport
blood between the
aorta heart and body
cells. The tubes
include arteries,
arterioles,
Femoral capillaries,
artery
and vein

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 Blood Vessels
Capillaries
Capillaries are the smallest blood
vessels in the body measuring only 1
cell thick. These are the link between
the arterioles and venules while
allowing the transfer of substances to
occur. The very thin walls of the
capillaries allowed nutrients and
gases to diffuse into the cells and
waste products from the cells (i.e.
carbon dioxide) to diffuse back in the
blood for excretion later. Different
tissues will have different amounts of
capillaries dependant upon the
individual tissues demand for oxygen
Thinkquest, (2001). Blood, the river ofin nutrients. As such, muscle tissues
life. Retrieved January 20, 2009, from are often found to be swarmed with
thinkquest.org Web site: capillaries as compared to low
metabolic tissues such as the cornea
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0115080/?c=vessels#Capillaries
which virtually have none. Due to
 Blood flow and your heart

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 The Hearts Job
• The heart pumps blood to every part
of the body, while doing this, it is
supping your body with oxygen and
all the vitamins and minerals that
your body needs to grow and repair
itself, and not forget it gets the stuff
that your body doesn’t need and
takes it to those parts of your body
like your liver, lungs and kidneys, to
remove waste from your body.
 References:
• Abdallah, Hasan (nd.). How the Heart Works: Blood Flow Diagram.
Retrieved January 20, 2009, from The Children's Heart Institute
Web site:
http://www.childrensheartinstitute.org/educate/heartwrk/bloodflw.htm
• MedicineNet, Inc., (2009). Heart: How the Heart Works. Retrieved
January 20, 2009, from medicinenet.com Web site:
http://www.medicinenet.com/heart_how_the_heart_works/page4.htm
• WebMD, LLC, (2009). Heart Disease: Coronary Artery Disease.
Retrieved January 20, 2009, from WebMD.org Web site:
http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/guide/heart-disease-coronary-arte
• Thinkquest, (2001). Blood, the river of life. Retrieved January 20,
2009, from thinkquest.org Web site:
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0115080/?c=vessels#Capillaries
• Touch of Life Technologies. (2007). VH Dissector/ Lite Version
4.5.2 [ CD ROM]. Toltech: Aurora, Colorado. www.toltech.net