The human circulatory system consists of the heart and a network of blood vessels. The heart has four chambers and uses electrical signals to regularly contract and pump blood throughout the body. It is a double pump that circulates oxygenated blood from the lungs through the arteries and deoxygenated blood back to the lungs through the veins. The circulatory system also includes capillaries that connect arteries and veins and facilitate the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between blood and tissues.
The human circulatory system consists of the heart and a network of blood vessels. The heart has four chambers and uses electrical signals to regularly contract and pump blood throughout the body. It is a double pump that circulates oxygenated blood from the lungs through the arteries and deoxygenated blood back to the lungs through the veins. The circulatory system also includes capillaries that connect arteries and veins and facilitate the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between blood and tissues.
The human circulatory system consists of the heart and a network of blood vessels. The heart has four chambers and uses electrical signals to regularly contract and pump blood throughout the body. It is a double pump that circulates oxygenated blood from the lungs through the arteries and deoxygenated blood back to the lungs through the veins. The circulatory system also includes capillaries that connect arteries and veins and facilitate the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between blood and tissues.
The human circulatory system consists of the heart and a network of blood vessels. The heart has four chambers and uses electrical signals to regularly contract and pump blood throughout the body. It is a double pump that circulates oxygenated blood from the lungs through the arteries and deoxygenated blood back to the lungs through the veins. The circulatory system also includes capillaries that connect arteries and veins and facilitate the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between blood and tissues.
Heart pumps oxygen and nutrient-rich blood throughout
your body to sustain life. It is a double pump.
It needs electrical signals which are sent to the heart muscle telling it when to contract and relax, then the heart keeps pumping blood regularly.
The four chambers of the heart are made of a special type of muscle called myocardium. The myocardium ( Cardiac muscles) does the main pumping work: It relaxes to fill with blood and then squeezes (contracts) to pump the blood.
*The human heart has
1. four chambers as,
▪ Left atrium ▪ Right atrium ▪ Left ventricle ▪ Right ventricle
2. Two valves between the atria and
ventricles.
• Bicuspid valve - between the
left atrium and left ventricle. • Tricuspid valve - between the right atrium and right ventricle.
3. Two main arteries connected to the ventricles.
• Aorta( artery) starts from the left ventricle. The aorta is the largest blood vessel in human body. • Pulmonary artery starts from the right ventricle 4. Semi lunar valves at the starting points of the main arteries.
• Aortic semi lunar valve is at the starting point of the aorta.
• Pulmonary semi lunar valve is at the starting point of the pulmonary artery.
5. Main veins are connected to the atria.
• The superior vena cava and inferior vena cava open to the right atrium. • Left and right pulmonary veins open to the left atrium.
Pumping Oxygenated Blood/ Purified blood with O2 throughout the body
Taking Deoxygenated Blood/Blood with CO2 to heart:
Arteries, veins and capillaries:
These are the three types of blood vessels:
I. Arteries carry blood away from your heart.
II. Veins carry blood back toward your heart. III. Capillaries, the smallest blood vessels, connect arteries and veins.
➢ The arteries deliver the oxygen-rich blood to the capillaries,
➢ Capillaries are the actual exchange structures of oxygen and carbon. They are tiny blood vessels have thin walls ( only a single cell layer). Oxygen and nutrients from the blood defuse /can move through the walls and get into organs and tissues. ➢ The capillaries then deliver the waste-rich blood (with CO2) to the veins for transport back to the lungs and heart. Comparison of Veins and Arteries:
