Starting in the right atrium, the blood flows through the tricuspid valve to the right ventricle. Here, it is pumped out the pulmonary semilunar valve and travels through the pulmonary artery to the lungs. From there, oxygenated blood flows back through the pulmonary vein to the left atrium. It then travels through the mitral valve to the left ventricle, from where it is pumped through the aortic semilunar valve to the aorta. The aorta forks and the blood is divided between major arteries which supply the upper and lower body. The blood travels in the arteries to the smaller arterioles and then, finally, to the tiny capillaries which feed each cell. The (relatively) deoxygenated blood then travels to the venules, which coalesce into veins, then to the inferior and superior venae cavae and finally back to the right atrium where the process began.
the left atrium
Left atrium.
The left atrium is the chamber that receives oxygenated blood returning from the lungs.
the left atrium receives oxygen rich blood via the pulmonary vein
the heart itself
the left atrium
Left atrium.
The left atrium is the chamber that receives oxygenated blood returning from the lungs.
the left atrium receives oxygen rich blood via the pulmonary vein
Well yes and no. It is the first ventricle to receive oxygenated blood to pump out again, as the right ventricle does not receive oxygenated blood to pump. It is not the first chamber to reieve oxygenated blood, this is the left atrium which gather blood and pumps it into the left ventricle. However all the ventricles of the heart has a blood supply (like any other organ to brink nutrients and remove wastes) and all receive oxygenated blood from this supply at the same time.
the heart itself
The first organ to receive oxygen-rich blood would be the heart. The right ventricle pumps de-oxygenated blood to the lungs. The lungs provide oxygen via interaction with capillaries which in turn sends the oxygen-rich blood back to the left atrium which is found in the heart.
The left ventricle pumps oxygenated blood into the aorta, one of the first side branches of the aorta are the cardiac arteries that bring blood back to the heart. So no heart chamber supplies blood to the heart directly.
Right Atrium
The oxygenated blood first enters the capillaries, then they carry the blood through other veins to the rest of the body.
the right atrium through the superior and inferior vena cava
In the pulmonary circulation, deoxygenated blood leaves the right section of the heart through the pulmonary artery, enters the lungs and oxygenated blood comes through the pulmonary veins. The blood then moves to the left atrium of the heart.