Cardiovascular System: Heart Blood Flow
Overview
Maintaining proper blood flow, direction, and pressure ensures effective blood circulation to the body’s organs and tissues. Veins carry blood to the heart, while arteries transport blood from the heart. In the lungs, the blood discards carbon dioxide and picks up oxygen, returning oxygen-rich blood to the heart to then be pumped to all the body tissues.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this chapter, students will be able to:
- describe the pathway the blood takes through the two circuits: Pulmonary and Systemic.
- name all the structures involved in the two circuits including the major blood vessels, heart chambers, and heart valves.
Video Review
Watch the video: Blood Flow through the Heart in 2 MINUTES (2 minutes)
Activities
Flash Cards
Anatomy of the Heart
General Anatomy
Labeling Activity
Question Sets
Wall of the Heart
Heart Valves During Contraction and Relaxation
Circulation Through the Heart
Chapter Attributions
This chapter by Elisabeth Kehrli and Anil Kapoor is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license.
Media Attributions
Blood Flow through the Heart in 2 MINUTES by Neural Academy is licensed under the Standard YouTube license.
Interactive Activity Attributions
The labeling activity Cardiovascular Beating Heat External View by DrB1000 is publicly viewable and embedded with the Sketchfab viewer.
All other interactive activities in this chapter are from Interactive Activities for Human Anatomy and Physiology by Open Education Lab, Ontario Tech University, and are licensed under a CC BY NC SA 4.0 license.