Pulmonary Circuit Pathway

This lesson explains the reason for the journey and outlines the path through the pulmonary circuit.

Pulmonary circuit pathway. Following is a rundown of how blood moves during pulmonary circulation. Right atrium right ventricle pulmonary trunk pulmonary artery capillaries of the lungs pulmonary vein left atrium list the structures that transport blood through the systemic circuit left atrium left ventricle aorta major artery capillary beds major vein vena cava right atrium. The pump for the pulmonary circuit which circulates blood through the lungs is the right ventricle the left ventricle is the pump for the systemic circuit which provides the blood supply for the tissue cells of the body. The blood is pumped by the muscular heart and continuously flows through arteries arterioles capillaries venules and veins.

Learn vocabulary terms and more with flashcards games and other study tools. Oxygenated blood then passes from the capillary beds through venules into the pulmonary veins. These arteries transport the deoxygenated blood to arterioles and capillary beds in the lungs. The term pulmonary circulation is readily paired and contrasted with the systemic circulation the vessels of the pulmonary circulation are the pulmonary arteries and the.

Pulmonary circulation the first pathway of your two circuit circulatory system brings blood to your lungs for oxygenation. Deoxygenated blood from your body enters the right atrium of your heart through the superior vena cava and the inferior vena cava. Pulmonary and systemic circuits of the circulatory sytem. The pulmonary circuit is the path of circulation between the heart and the lungs blood is pumped to the various places of the body by a process known as the cardiac cycle oxygen depleted blood returns from the body to the right atrium of the heart by two large veins called vena cavae.

Humans have a closed circulatory system meaning that blood is confined within the chambers of the heart and blood vessels. As each atrium and ventricle contract blood is pumped into certain major blood vessels and from there continues through the circulatory system. The pulmonary trunk splits into the right and left pulmonary arteries. The blood vessels of the body are functionally divided into two distinctive circuits.

The pulmonary circulation is the portion of the circulatory system which carries deoxygenated blood away from the right ventricle to the lungs and returns oxygenated blood to the left atrium and ventricle of the heart. Superior means higher and inferior. One circuit is for pulmonary circulation circulation to the lungs. There carbon dioxide is released and oxygen is absorbed.

Pulmonary circuit and systemic circuit. Pulmo lungs and the other circuit is for systemic circulation the rest of the body. Pathway of blood through the pulmonary and systemic circuits. Start studying pulmonary circulation blood pathway.