The Circulatory System

The circulatory system is a vast network of organs and vessels that is

responsible for the flow of blood, nutrients, hormones, oxygen and other gasses to
and from cells. There are three major parts of the circulatory system. The heart
which pumps blood throughout the body, the blood, and the blood vessels which
are the arteries, capillaries and veins. Circulatory cycle starts when oxygenated
blood is carried from the lungs to the heart to the left atrium of the heart by means
of pulmonary veins, as the left atrium relaxes the bloods goes into the heart, when
the left atrium contracts the left ventricle relaxes simultaneously, the left atrium
pushes the blood into the left ventricle through the one way valve, when the left
ventricle contracts, the blood is pump into the aorta which carries oxygenated
blood to the different parts of the body (except the lungs). Oxygenated blood
reaches the different parts of the body through the blood vessels called arteries, the
arteries gets branch into capillaries which then reaches the different organs of the
body, the blood then becomes deoxygenated goes to the blood capillaries and into
the blood vessels called veins, veins carries deoxygenated blood to the heart, the
blood vessels carried deoxygenated blood to heart are known as venacava, the
deoxygenated blood from different parts of body enters the right upper chamber of
the heart which is called the right atrium, the right atrium gets contracted allowing
the blood to flow into the right ventricle which contracts with the expansion of the
right atrium through the one way valve, the right ventricle then contracts pushing
the blood into the pulmonary artery, the pulmonary artery carries the deoxygenated
blood to the lungs for oxygenation and flows back again to the heart through the
pulmonary vein and start the circulatory cycle again.