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  2. File:Diagram of the human heart (cropped).svg - Wikipedia

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    A-level Biology/Transport/mammalian heart; General Anatomy/Cardiovascular System; USMLE Step 1 Review/Cardiovascular; User:M3058565; Biomedical Engineering Theory And Practice/Physiolgocial System; Biomedical Engineering Theory And Practice/Biomechanics IV; The Organ Systems/circulatory; Usage on en.wikiversity.org Human heart; Usage on eo ...

  3. File:Circulatory System en.svg - Wikipedia

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    Added: Coronary vessels (improving the appearance of the heart at the exit of large vessels); the enterohepatic circulation (with the portal vein, and the mesenteric and splenic vessels) and the meaning of the used abbreviations.

  4. File:Heart diagram-en.svg - Wikipedia

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    Information from its description page there is shown below. ... Heart diagram with labels in English. Blue components indicate de-oxygenated blood pathways and red ...

  5. Circulatory system - Wikipedia

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    The circulatory system is a system of organs that includes the heart, blood vessels, and blood which is circulated throughout the entire body of a human or other vertebrate. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It includes the cardiovascular system , or vascular system , that consists of the heart and blood vessels (from Greek kardia meaning heart , and from Latin ...

  6. Heart - Wikipedia

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    In the cardiovascular system, the electrical impulse required for each heart beat is provided by the electrochemical gradient of each heart cell. Because the beating of the heart depends on the proper movement of ions across the surface membrane, cardiac ion channelopathies form a major group of heart diseases.

  7. Anatomy of the human heart - Wikipedia

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    The heart is a muscular organ situated in the mediastinum.It consists of four chambers, four valves, two main arteries (the coronary arteries), and the conduction system. The left and right sides of the heart have different functions: the right side receives de-oxygenated blood through the superior and inferior venae cavae and pumps blood to the lungs through the pulmonary artery, and the left ...

  8. Wiggers diagram - Wikipedia

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    A Wiggers diagram modified from [1]. A Wiggers diagram, named after its developer, Carl Wiggers, is a unique diagram that has been used in teaching cardiac physiology for more than a century.

  9. Cardiac cycle - Wikipedia

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    Cardiac diastole is the period of the cardiac cycle when, after contraction, the heart relaxes and expands while refilling with blood returning from the circulatory system. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Both atrioventricular (AV) valves open to facilitate the 'unpressurized' flow of blood directly through the atria into both ventricles, where it is collected for ...