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The relative PO2 and PCO2 in pulmonary arteries and veins and systemic arteries and veins?
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Pulmonary artery/Systemic veins
PCO2 = 45
PO2 = 40
Pulmonary vein/Systemic arteries
PCO2 = 40
PO2 = 100
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What are the components of the pulmonary circuit and the systemic circuit?
The components of the pulmonary circuit include the right ventricle, pulmonary arteries, pulmonary capillaries, and pulmonary veins. This circuit carries deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs to pick up oxygen and release carbon dioxide. The components of the systemic circuit include the left ventricle, aorta, systemic arteries, systemic capillaries, and systemic veins. This circuit carries oxygenated blood from the heart to the rest of the body to deliver oxygen and nutrients, and returns deoxygenated blood back to the heart.
What are the two kinds of blood circuit?
Veins and Arteries, I believe is what you are asking about. Arteries carry freshly oxygenated blood from the lungs; veins return the 'spent' blood to the lungs for a recharge. Arteries carry greater blood pressure. The two major blood circuit are the Pulmonary Circuit which is the circuit that runs through the lungs and the Systemic Circuit, Which is the circuit that takes the blood through the body.
What parts of the circulatory system have oxygen-rich blood?
Most arteries (except the pulmonary arteries), arterioles, the left side of the heart, and the pulmonary veins.
The path of blood flow within the systemic vascular system?
superior vena cava,right atrium,tricuspid valve,right ventricle,pulmonary valve,pulmonary artery,pulmonary veins,left atrium,bicuspid valve,left ventricle,aortic valve,aorta,pulmonary cappillaries,pulmonary trunk
What scheme of circulation of red blood cell in the human body?
Right atrium through the tricuspid valve to the RIGHT VENTRICLE through the PULMONARY SEMILUNAR valve to the pulmonary trunk to the LUNGS to the capillary beds of the lungs to the PULMONARY VEINS to the LEFT ATRIUM of the heart through the BICUSPID (MITRAL) valve to the LEFT VENTRICLE through the AORTIC SEMILUNAR valve to the AORTA to the systemic arteries to the CAPILLARY BEDS of the tissues to the systemic veins to the SUPERIOR AND INFERIOR VENA CAVA and CORONARY SINUS entering the right atrium of the heart
Where does a red blood cell go after the systemic arteries?
The systemic arteriole, then the capillaries, the venule, the vein, the vena cava, the heart, the pulmonary artery, the pulmonary arterioles, capillaries, the pulmonary veins, the heart, into the aorta, and back into the artery.
Structural differences between arteries and veins?
Pulmonary Arteries lead from the heart to the lungs. Systemic arteries go everywhere else. Consequently, the pulmonary arteries are usually slightly smaller and thinner. There is also less of them.
How is blood distributed in the body?
The blood is distributed in the body : Pulmonary vessels-12% Heart-8% Systemic arteries/arterioles-15% Systemic capillaries-5% Systemic veins/ venvoles-60%
What vessels take blood to and from the lungs?
The Pulmonary Artery
What are the different types of veins in the body?
pulmonary vein and systemic veins
Where does blood go after it leaves he pulmonary veins?
The Pulmonary arteries
Where do the pulmonary arteries and veins lie are they in the pulmonary circuit?
yes
What is different about pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins?
The pulmonary artery and pulmonary vein originates in the heart. What is different about them is that the pulmonary artery carries deoxygenated blood (blood without oxygen) as supposed to other arteries, which carry oxygenated blood. And the pulmonary vein carries oxygenated blood unlike other veins, which carry deoxygenated blood.
Is the blood of the systemic circulation system oxygenated or deoxygenated?
Both. In the systemic system arteries carry oxygenated blood and veins carry deoxygenated blood. The opposite is true for the pulmonary circuit.
What are the major parts of our circulatory system aside from heart?
You have the aorta, large and small arteries, capillaries and veins in the systemic circulation. You have the pulmonary aorta, arteries, capillaries and veins in the venous system. The blood pressure in the systemic circulation is much greater and hence the vessels are thicker there.
What the significance of pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins?
they carrythe blood to and from thelungs
What type of blood does artieris carry?
An artery is an elastic blood vessel that transports blood away from the heart. There are two main types of arteries: pulmonary arteries and systemic arteries. Pulmonary arteries carry blood from the heart to the lungs where the blood picks up oxygen. The oxygen rich blood is then returned to the heart via the pulmonary veins. Systemic arteries deliver blood to the rest of the body. The aorta is the main systemic artery and the largest artery of the body. It originates from the heart and branches out into smaller arteries which supply blood to the head region, the heart itself, and the lower regions of the body.
