Circulatory System
Circulatory System
The Circulatory System is the system that circulates the blood and fluid in the human body.
The Circulatory System is mostly about the heart and its parts and functions but there are others too inside of the heart.
The function of the heart is to pump oxygen into the blood to transfer into the whole body. Then carbon dioxide transports to the lungs which is then removed when we exhale.
Pointer = The red blood cell function is to carry oxygen throughout the body.
There are 8 parts in the body that helps with the Circulatory System which are:
Right Atrium
Tricuspid Valve
Right Ventricle
Lung
Left Atrium
Bicuspid Valve
Left Ventricle
Body (The oxygenated air is transfer throughout the body.)
Interesting Facts about the Heart:
1. Everyday, our hearts pumped 100,000 times.
2. In each minute, our hearts pumped 1.5 gallons of blood in your body.
3. Heart Disease is the #1 cause of death for us humans.
4. The largest heart to ever exist is the grey whale's heart.
There are four chamber or rooms inside the heart that circulates the air into the lungs then to the blood which are:
Right Atrium
Right Ventricle
Left Atrium
Left Ventricle
The heart also contains valves that acts as the doors to prevent the backflow of our blood.
1. Right Atrium
The Right Atrium is the 1st chamber (room) and process that is located on the right top corner of the heart where the deoxygenated blood that came form the brain and the body and is transport to this section.
Pointer - Deoxygenated means that the oxygen in the red blood cells is now almost finished, turning into carbon dioxide and needs to take back in fresh oxygen.
2. Tricuspid Valve
The Tricuspid Valve is the 2nd part of the process in the system that is connected with the Right Atrium and the Right Ventricle. This prevent the backflow of the deoxygenated blood going back in the Right Atrium.
3. Right Ventricle
The Right Ventricle is the other 2nd chamber (room) located under the right atrium. This leads the deoxygenated blood to the lungs.
4. Lungs
The Lungs are the organs that breathes in oxygen and lets out carbon dioxide but it isn't a part of the Circulatory System. However, it is mostly in the Respiratory System which the deoxygenated blood goes to the Alveoli and the oxygenated air is transported back to the Left Atrium. The deoxygenated is left to work with the Respiratory System.
Pointer - This is why both the Circulatory and Respiratory System works together to keep all the organs and systems alive inside the human body.
5. Left Atrium
The Left Atrium is the 3rd chamber (room) that is on the left top corner where the oxygenated air is released and then transfer to the Left Ventricle.
6. Bicuspid Valve
The Bicuspid Valve is located in the middle, connected with the Left Atrium and the Left Ventricle which prevents the backflow of the oxygenated blood going back into the Left Atrium.
7. Left Ventricle
The Left Ventricle is the 4th chamber (room) that is located on the bottom left corner of the heart and this is where the oxygenated blood transfer from the Left Atrium and is now going to transport all the oxygenated blood throughout the whole human body.
8. Body
After the process, the oxygenated blood is now transfer to the whole body to keep them functioning and then it will repeat the process over again.
Pointer = Remember, the whole process is repeated a 100,000 times everyday so the heart doesn't rest until we died.
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