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Path of Blood
Path of Blood: The path of blood forms a double loop. One route, called systemic circulation, wends its way through all the muscles, organs and tissues of the body, then back to the heart. A second, shorter circuit, the pulmonary circulation, travels only through the lungs. Pulmonary circulation changes blood from a purplish, breathless fluid into a bright crimson stream rich in oxygen.
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| Pulmonary Artery
Pulmonary Artery: The Pulmonary Artery sprouts from the right ventricle and branches into smaller left and right arteries which lead to each lung. Inside the lungs, the arteries divide into smaller and smaller vessels until finally they spread out into a bed of capillaries. Hundreds of mile ...More... |
Carbon Dioxide in Blood
Carbon Dioxide: When a fire burns, carbon dioxide is formed. When a body cell combines sugar with oxygen to get energy, carbon dioxide is formed here, too. But too much carbon dioxide could poison a cell. So all the body cells need some way to get oxygen. They also need some way to get ri ...More... |
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INDEX
Blood Circles | Blood Flow | Capillaries | Carbon Dioxide in Blood | Congestive Heart Failure | Chambers of the Heart | Circulation of Blood | Circulatory system | Congestive Heart Failure | Doors of the Heart | Facts About The Heart | Heart Muscle | Heart Pump | Heart Rythm | Heart Skeleton | Heart Valve | Lungs and Blood | Oxygen in Blood | Path of Blood | Pulmonary Artery | Red Blood Cells | Semilunar valves | Sound of Heart | The Heartbeat | American Heart Association Diet | Birmingham Cardiac Diet | Cardiac Diet | Florida Diet | Heart Diet | Hospital Diet | Kaiser Diet | Sitemap |Path of Blood
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Facts About The Heart
Heart Pumps
The heart pumps between 70 ml and 100 ml of blood each beat.
Deaths
Cardiovascular disease was the leading cause of death in Australia in 2000, ahead of all cancers and other groups of causes of death, accounting for 49,741 deaths or 39% of all deaths
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