{"id":643,"date":"2010-02-17T22:20:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T09:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=643"},"modified":"2010-02-17T22:28:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T09:28:23","slug":"how-does-blood-travel-through-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"How does blood travel through the heart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cramnotes.dmbh.org\/images\/heart.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>deoxygenated blood<\/strong> returning from the body enters the heart through the\u00a0<strong>superior vena cava<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>inferior vena cava<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>blood passes into the\u00a0<strong>right atrium<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>right ventricle.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>right ventricle pushes the blood through the\u00a0<strong>pulmonary arteries.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>blood passes through the\u00a0<strong>lungs<\/strong> where it loses carbon dioxide and picks up oxygen.<\/li>\n<li>this\u00a0<strong>oxygenated blood<\/strong> returns to the heart via the\u00a0<strong>pulmonary veins.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>blood enters the\u00a0<strong>left atrium<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>left ventricle.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>the left ventricle pushes the blood out through the main artery, the\u00a0<strong>aorta.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>blood travels to all parts of the body where it delivers oxygen and picks up carbon dioxide.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"blood flow through the heart\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nhlbi.nih.gov\/health\/dci\/Diseases\/hhw\/hhw_pumping.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Click to see this process in animation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>deoxygenated blood returning from the body enters the heart through the\u00a0superior vena cava and\u00a0inferior vena cava. blood passes into the\u00a0right atrium and\u00a0right ventricle. right ventricle pushes the blood through the\u00a0pulmonary arteries. blood passes through the\u00a0lungs where it loses carbon dioxide and picks up oxygen. this\u00a0oxygenated blood returns to the heart via the\u00a0pulmonary veins. blood enters &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=643\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How does blood travel through the heart?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"How does blood travel through the heart? - science4all","description":"deoxygenated blood returning from the body enters the heart through the\u00a0 superior vena cava and\u00a0 inferior vena cava . blood passes into the\u00a0 right atrium and\u00a0 r"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6309,6308,6304,6303,6307],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-as-level-biology","category-gcse-biology-cie","category-year11-biology","category-year11-science","category-year9-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}