MEDICAL
HEART AND PERICARDIUM
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Question
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Blood that leaves the lungs and is heading back to the heart is traveling through the ____
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pulmonary veins
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pulmonary arteries
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aorta
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vena cava
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -After the blood gets oxygen in the lungs, it is called oxygen-rich blood. Oxygen-rich blood flows from the lungs back into the left atrium (LA), or the left upper chamber of the heart, through four pulmonary veins.
Detailed explanation-2: -This is called the pulmonary circulation. From your pulmonic valve, blood travels to the pulmonary arteries and eventually to tiny capillary vessels in the lungs. Here, oxygen travels from the tiny air sacs in the lungs, through the walls of the capillaries, into the blood.
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