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  2. 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 ...

  3. Atrium (heart) - Wikipedia

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    Right heart anatomy, right ventricle seen on right of illustration. Humans have a four-chambered heart consisting of the right and left atrium, and the right and left ventricle. The atria are the two upper chambers which pump blood to the two lower ventricles.

  4. Heart - Wikipedia

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    Heart being dissected showing right and left ventricles, from above. The heart has four chambers, two upper atria, the receiving chambers, and two lower ventricles, the discharging chambers. The atria open into the ventricles via the atrioventricular valves, present in the atrioventricular septum.

  5. Cardiac physiology - Wikipedia

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    Cardiac physiology or heart function is the study of healthy, ... from the body via the superior vena cava, ... when the heart chambers are relaxed (diastole), blood ...

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

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    Add cardiac skeleton. Inferior vena cava more wide. Add aorta in bottom. Add source veins of superior vena cava. Brachiocephalic trunk more wide and separated. Added shadows. Left main pulmonary artery with its first division. 07:02, 2 June 2006: 650 × 650 (26 KB) Yaddah: Diagram of the human heart, created by Wapcaplet in Sodipodi. Cropped by ...

  7. Ventricle (heart) - Wikipedia

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    A ventricle is one of two large chambers located toward the bottom of the heart that collect and expel blood towards the peripheral beds within the body and lungs. The blood pumped by a ventricle is supplied by an atrium, an adjacent chamber in the upper heart that is smaller than a ventricle.

  8. Circulatory system - Wikipedia

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    The right heart pumps deoxygenated blood to the lungs in the pulmonary circulation. In the human heart there is one atrium and one ventricle for each circulation, and with both a systemic and a pulmonary circulation there are four chambers in total: left atrium, left ventricle, right atrium and right ventricle. The right atrium is the upper ...

  9. Cardiac shunt - Wikipedia

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    There are four chambers in a heart: an atrium (upper) and a ventricle (lower) on both the left and right sides. [1] In mammals and birds, blood from the body goes to the right side of the heart first. [2] Blood enters the upper right atrium, is pumped down to the right ventricle and from there to the lungs via the pulmonary artery. [3]