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Human Cardiovascular System

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When a person is 80 years old, the average healthy heart will have beat 3,363,840,000 times (“10 unique and fun facts about the cardiovascular system,” 2015). The cardiovascular system includes the heart and blood vessels that’s main job is to carry blood from the body to the heart and vice versa. The human heart is amazingly the base core of functionality for the human body, without it the human body would never function. There are three stages in the process of pumping blood throughout the body.
The first stage of pumping blood throughout the body, is by pumping blood through the four main chambers of the heart, which are “The right and left atrium, and the right and left Ventricle”. The great vessels in the heart include the Superior and Inferior Vena Cava, which brings blood from the body to the right Atrium, then the Pulmonary artery transports blood from the right ventricle to the lungs, therefore, the Aorta “the body’s largest artery” transports oxygen rich blood in one …show more content…

The blood travels to the lungs where it receives oxygen. Next the bloods drains back into the left atrium from the lungs via the pulmonary veins and travels to the left atrium. The left atrium then contracts, therefore forcing blood through the mitral valve into the left ventricle. As it is explained in human anatomy, and more specifically about the human heart, the left ventricle is the major muscular pump that sends the blood out to the body’s system. As a result, when the left vertical contracts, in forces highly pumped blood though the aortic semilunar valve into the aorta. From here the aorta and its branches carry blood to the rest of the body’s tissue.
In conclusion, the human heart works in a very complex way, and as human anatomy develops over the years to have a better understanding of how the human heart works, it is very important that people have a better understanding of how it

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