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Travel A road trip in Burgundy reveals far more than fine wine. Travel My Hometown In L. Subscriber Exclusive Content. Because the heart is so important, the American Heart Association reminds people that they need to treat their hearts with care.
Exercise and healthful foods can help the heart do its job. This Valentine's Day, heart-shaped gifts will be everywhere. Maybe that's why February is also American Heart Month! All rights reserved. Personality Quizzes. Funny Fill-In. Where it is collected in the collecting chamber, atrium, then is pushed into the pumping chamber, ventricle which pushes it up to the lungs via the pulmonary artery. Simple rule — Arteries carry red , oxygen filled blood away from the heart to the body.
Veins carry blue , oxygen empty blood back to the heart and lungs. Follow the arrows on the same journey as the described above starting in the Left Atrium, collecting chamber, down through the mitral valve into the left ventricle or pumping chamber then up through the aortic valve into the aorta, the motorway artery of the body.
All of this part of the heart is filled with red oxygen filled blood. Once the body has used up all of the oxygen it turns blue and then returns to the heart on the right side of the heart. Follow the arrows from the head and the body as blood arrives in the right atrium, collecting chamber, down through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle, pumping chamber, which pushes the blood up through the pulmonary valve into the pulmonary artery into the lungs.
The lungs do their job and take loads of waste gases, carbon dioxide, out of the blood and then fill the blood up with oxygen. The blood then starts the journey all over again. To learn more about every part of the heart visit the Normal Heart page of the main website. You can also visit Kids Health which shows a great cartoon of how the heart works.
So the heart pumps blood 60 to 80 times each minute, up to times if you are a baby. In fact, the heart has four chambers that pump oxygen-rich blood in and out. By the time the anatomical error was corrected in the sixteenth century, the icon was so popular, the image stuck, Vinken wrote. More: Mother nature's valentine: A heart-shaped island seen from space. Another possible theory includes the heart shape mirroring the seedpods of an ancient type of silphium plant that acted as an early form of birth control in the Greek colony Cyrene.
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