Anatomy of the Heart

How does our heart affect every part of our body?
The heart pumps approximately five liters of blood per minute round. The heart provides the body with blood containing oxygen and nutrients.

The active tissues use the oxygen and nutrients and are in turn carbon dioxide and waste products in the blood. Carbon dioxide and waste products are transported through the heart to the lungs and kidneys, respectively, where they are excreted. This article briefly discusses the anatomy and physiology of the heart.

Anatomy of the Heart
The heart is a hollow muscle, which consists of two chambers (ventricles) and two atria (atria) exists. In the upper right-hand half of the heart and the inferior vena cava (v cava superior and inferior) nozzles in the atrium (see Figure 1). The pulmonary artery (arterial pull moralist) leaves the right ventricle. In the left atrium, the pulmonary vein flows (pulmonary vein) out. The aorta leaves the left ventricle.

The Atrio-Ventricular valves allow blood from the atria to the rooms. The semi lunar valves allow blood from the ventricles to the pulmonary artery and aorta. Right heart squeezes deoxygenated blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs where the blood becomes saturated with oxygen.

Via the pulmonary artery oxygenated blood flowing to the left heart. The left ventricle pumps the oxygenated to the rest of the body. This is also the reason that the left ventricle is thicker than the right ventricle. Like the rest of the body also has the heart of nutrients and oxygen. The provision of this is provided by the coronary arteries.