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Blood Flow in the Circulatory System
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Physiology
Undergraduate 2
11/19/2013

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Left ventricle pumps oxygenated blood through aortic valve into the aorta.
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Step 2
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Blood becomes deoxygenated in the systemic capillaries and then travels back to the heart in the vena cavae
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Step 3
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Blood, from the right atrium, passes through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle
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Right ventricle pumps blood through the pulmonary semilunar valve into the pulmonary trunk, then into the pulmonary artieries which carries the deoxygenated blood to the lungs.
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Blood becomes oxygenated in the lungs and then travels to the left atrium in the pulmonary veins
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From the left atrium, blood passes through the bicuspid valve into the left ventricle and the whole cycle repeats.
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