The Heart

Cards (9)

  • What do RBCs drop off and pick up peripherally?
    Oxygen and CO2
  • What does the venous system do with deoxygenated blood?
    Brings it back to the heart
  • Where does deoxygenated blood drop off in the heart?
    Right atria
  • What happens to deoxygenated blood after it enters the right atria?
    It moves to the right ventricle
  • How does blood travel from the right ventricle to the lungs?
    Through pulmonary vessels
  • What is the purpose of the blood traveling to the lungs?
    To re-oxygenate
  • Where does reoxygenated blood go after the lungs?
    Back to the left atria
  • What happens to reoxygenated blood after it enters the left atria?
    It moves to the left ventricle
  • Where does blood go after leaving the left ventricle?
    Out to the periphery