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The heart is a one-way pump. By maintaining a pattern of certain chambers opening and closing, constricting and relaxing, the blood is pumped one way and one way only. There are also hundreds of one-way valves throughout the arterial system that keep backflow from occurring.

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It is partly due to the way the heart pumps the blood and how it enters specific chambers of the heart at a time before being pumped out of the heart and around the body.

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The left atrium has flaps that keep the blood flowing one way <3

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The semi lunar valves. I have no idea why they are 'lunar' as that is usually to do with the moon, but they are

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Left side of the heart.

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Valves

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