Magic School Bus

As we all know the human body is not a simple map to follow. If you could imagine what the inside of what the human body looks like, I would describe it as a very complicated jig saw puzzle. Today we’re going to take an adventure through the femoral vein up through the body, through all the detours and then our final destination will be out the nose. We will also discuss what we pass through the whole trip. Ready or not were heading off to exam the inside of the human body. As we enter the body through the femoral vein, you will notice that there is another object that looks like the femoral vein but it is called the femoral artery. The femoral artery runs parallel with the femoral vein through the upper thigh and pelvic region. The femoral vein is one of the larger veins and it circulates blood into the leg from the heart through the iliac vein. As were moving along we are going to pass through the inguinal ligament that forms a band going from anterior superior iliac spine to the pubis ligament (Thibodeau & Patton, 2008). The inguinal ligament is to protect the tissue movement between the trunk and the lower extremities. Going north from the inguinal ligament you will see the external iliac vein which is a continuation of the femoral vein just above the inguinal ligament. We are going to start again at the groin area; the external vein goes along the pelvic area. It intersects with the internal iliac vein. We will keep traveling through and we will go east into the common iliac vein that functions to drain the perianal regions. The iliac veins are joined together to form inferior vena cava, also called the posterior vena cava. The vein carries deoxygenated blood from the lower body to the heart. The vein runs behind the abdominal cavity and along the right vertebrae column of the spine. It also carries blood from the lower body to the heart and lungs (Thibodeau & Patton, 2008). From this point we can already see the heart, but were not done yet. Looking north