Explain our heart works as a double pump????
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The heart is called a double pump because first it pump carries oxygen-poor blood to your lungs and second it pump delivers oxygen rich blood to every part of body.
Detailed explanation:
↪The heart has superior and inferior vena cava.
↪They carry deoxygenated blood from the upper and lower regions of the body respectively and supply the deoxygenated blood to the right auricle of the heart.
↪The right auricle contracts and passes the deoxygenated blood to the right ventricle.
↪The right ventricle contracts and passes the deoxygenated blood into the two pulmonary arteries, which pumps it to the lungs where the blood is oxygenated.
↪From the lungs, the pulmonary veins transport the oxygenated blood to the left atrium of the heart.
- when the muscles of all the four chambers of the heart are relaxed , the pulmonary vein brings the oxygenated blood from the lungs into the left atrium of the heart
- when the left atrium contacts , the oxygenated blood is pushed into the left ventricle through the valve v1
- when the left ventricle contracts ,the oxygenated blood is forced into the main artery called " aorta ". this main artery then branches into smaller arteries which go into different body organs . the smaller arteries further branch into capillaries .
- the main artery carries blood to all the organs of the body . when oxygenated blood passes through the capillaries of the organs , then it gives oxygen to the body cells . since the blood lose oxygen here , we say that blood has been deoxygenated .
- when the right atrium contracts , deoxygenated blood is pushed into the right ventricle through the valve v2 .
- and when the right ventricle contracts , the deoxygenated blood is pumped into the lungs through the pulmonary artery . in the lungs , deoxygenated blood releases its carbon dioxide and absorbs fresh oxygen from air . so , the blood becomes oxygenated again . this oxygenated blood is again sent to the left atrium of heart by pulmonary vein for circulation in the body .
This is the double circulation in the body
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