The Path Blood Travels Through the Heart

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Front Back
Blood enters the heart through two large veins called the .
Inferior and superior vena cava.
The vena cava carry deoxygenated blood into the .
Right atrium
Blood flows from the right atrium to the through which valve?
Right ventricle, through the tricuspid.
Blood leaves the right ventricle through the and flows through the .
Pulmonary valve, flows through the pulmonary arteries and into the lungs.
From the lungs, the pulmonary veins carry oxygen-rich blood to the what?
The left atrium.
Blood flows from the left atrium through the into the what?
Through the mitral (or bicuspid) valve into the left ventricle.
Blood leaves the left ventricle through the and into the .
Blood leaves through the aortic valve and into the aorta.
Where does the aorta carry blood?
To the entire body.
Which veins contain oxygenated blood?
The pulmonary veins.