Exercise 1: Label and explain the blood circulation.

In your answer, include the blood flow inside the heart, the pulmonary circulation, and the
systemic circulation. Answer as briefly as possible.

Capillary bed of lungs

where gas exchange
occurs

Pulmonary arteries Pulmonary veins

Pulmonary circuit

Aorta and branches

Vena cavae
Left atrium

Left ventricle
Right atrium

Right ventricle
Systematic arteries

Systematic veins

Systematic circuit

Capillary bed of all

body tissues where
gas exchange occurs
Blood flows from the body into the right atrium, then into the right ventricle, and
finally into the pulmonary arteries in the lungs. After picking up oxygen, blood
returns to the heart through the pulmonary veins into the left atrium, then to the left
ventricle, and finally to the body's tissues through the aorta.
Pulmonary circulation is a circulation whereby the heart receives blood from the
rest of the body and then pumps that blood to the lungs, its deoxygenated blood and
it then passes through the lung and becomes oxygenated, and then it returned back
to the heart. To the left side of the heart where that obsidian agent blood is finally
pumped from the heart to the rest of the body. The pulmonary circulation just refers
to that circulation of blood to and from the lungs. It is important because its function
is to be able to take blood from right side of the heart to the lungs, for the lungs to
get oxygenated blood. So we need to take the oxygen from the lungs and put it into
the blood that the next thing that’s also really important for the pulmonary
circulation is to take the CO2 out of the blood and put it into the lungs so that the
lungs can actually exhale it and then take that new oxygenated blood and deliver it
to the left side of the heart. The purpose of pulmonary circulation is to pump blood
to the right side of the heart to the lungs, where in the lungs the blood is gonna pick
up the oxygen, drop off the CO2 and be taken to the left side of the heart.
The systemetic circulation refers to the circulation of blood to all the organs of the
body from the left side of the heart. There is also portal systems components in the
cardiovascular system, these are very strange diversions from the typical supply of
blood to blood to tissues

The pulmonary circulation and the systemic circulation

First of all, blood passes back to the heart from systemic tissues and enters either
through superior vena cavae which is labeled eleven here or by the inferior vena
cavae which is not labeled or shown in this diagram but the essential idea is that
blood passes through these two vena cavae into the right atrium, labeled here too
and that right atrium pumps the blood into the right ventricle through a valve. That
right ventricle contracts and sends all that blood through the pulmonary trunk to
the lungs where it becomes oxygenated and that blood then returns newly
oxygenated into the left atrium where it passes from the left atrium directly into the
left ventricle of the heart and the left ventricle contracts and passes blood out
through the aorta to the rest of the body. So that is the sequence of a blood flow
through the heart.