fantastic voyage

We will be taking a short detailed ride to Bianca’s right lung from the femoral vein, which is located in the upper thigh and pelvic region of the human body (Healthline, 2014). While traveling through the femoral vein, you will notice that it is one of the largest in the venal system. As you may also know the femoral vein will return oxygenated blood to the heart and lungs. From the femoral vein, we will be traveling up the external iliac vein. Once we enter the external iliac vein, we will be carried through the abdomen. From the external iliac vein we travel to the common iliac vein and then through into the inferior vena cava. Once in the external iliac vein, we will see how the deoxygenated blood flows between the legs and the up to the heart.
We will now continue the voyage into the inferior vena cava. Here you will notice how large the vein is and how is ascends through the abdomen. The inferior vena cava job is to collect blood from several sources like, hepatic veins, lumbar veins, gonadal veins, renal veins, and phrenic veins (innerbody, 2013). From the inferior vena cava will be entering the heart through the right atrium (innerbody, 2013). Hold on everyone! It’s going to get a little bumpy, make sure to tighten up those seat belts.
We are now entering the heart through the right atrium. The heart has four hollow chambers and is located on the upper right hand side (Innerbody, 2013). Here at the right atrium of the heart, we will see it receive the blood from both the superior vena cava and the inferior vena cava, how exciting to be able to see it! We are now going to go through the tricuspid valve. “The tricuspid valve guards the atrioventricular opening between the right atrium and the right ventricle of the heart (innerbody, 2013).