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    base‚ connects to the heart’s blood vessels called the aorta‚ vena cava‚ pulmonary trunk‚ and pulmonary veins. There are two different types of circulatory loops in the human body the Pulmonary Circulation and the Systemic Circulation. The Pulmonary arteries brings blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs where then the blood picks up oxygen and returns to the left side of the heart. The pumping chambers that support the pulmonary circulation are the right atrium and left ventricle.

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    Chasadee Wilkins

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    Distinguish between systole and diastole phases of the heart. During the systole phase‚ the right ventricle is sending blood into the pulmonary artery and the left ventricle is sending blood into the aorta. During the diastole phase‚ the atria is relaxed and releasing blood into the ventricles. 6. Distinguish between an artery and a vein. An artery pumps blood away from the heart and a vein moves blood towards the heart. 7. What is a sphygmomanometer? A sphygmomanometer is an instrument

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    What are the coronary circulatory routes and how does it compare to the portal circulatory route you ask? They are both routes but different in many ways because of how they circulate the blood throughout the body. The coronary circulatory system deals with how the blood of the heart circulates to help the heart function itself. But the systemic route differs from the other route. In the systemic route blood is moved through the body providing it with oxygen and nutrients while blood with no oxygen

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    calcium vs magnesium

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    conventional‚ nutritional‚ and alternative medicine. This is a great and tragic mistake. They should have been promoting magnesium. Magnesium deficiency leads to an increase in myocardial levels of both sodium and calcium. This is a problem because Coronary Artery calcium is a predictor of near-term coronary heart disease events. In the face of growing magnesium deficiencies calcium becomes increasingly more toxic to human physiology. It is magnesium that actually controls bone density not calcium. Magnesium

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    References: | |Retrieved from http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/clogged-arteries-arterial-plaque | |Retrieved from http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/heartattack/causes.html |

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    Heart Disease

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    Everyone should know whether it runs in the family or not what to look for‚ how to prevent it‚ management‚ diagnosis treatment and care. Heart disease fall under a plethora of diseases that affect the heart‚ it all ranges from the blood vessels‚ coronary artery‚ heart rhythms‚ heart infections and heart defects. Symptoms Heart disease could be a very complicated disease; therefore there are things that we should have the knowledge of knowing. As any other disease if we do not know what there is

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    cardiovascular system The cardiovascular system is a system that is able to transport things such as nutrients through the body in order for them to reach their destinations. The cardiovascular system is made up of our hearts‚ our blood vessels‚ arteries‚ veins and capillaries and our blood. The system is also linked to the respiratory system. The heart The heart is the size of a closed fist‚ this can be located in the thoracic cavity. The thoracic cavity is a chamber of the body that is between

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    Homeostasis

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    the pressure of the blood within the artery as it flows into the heart during the rest period. Blood volume‚ the amount of blood pumped by the heart or cardiac output‚ and also the contraction of smooth muscle inside of the blood vessels or arterial tone are three contributing factors of blood pressure. In your case age plays a key factor‚ the reasoning behind that is as we age the continuous wear on the aorta and its branches causes stiffening of the arteries over time directly causing the gradual

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    What Is The Gallbladder?

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    Questions Circulatory Compare and contrast veins and arteries in blood traveling to or from the heart and containing oxygenated or deoxygenated blood (and the exception). The arteries job is to take oxygenated blood and transport if to the other organs and cells of the body‚ away from the heart. Then the veins carry deoxygenated blood back to the heart from the organs. The two exceptions to this is the pulmonary arteries and veins. The pulmonary arteries take deoxygenated blood and delivers it to the the

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    Hs131 Unit 4 Assignment

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    right lung. We must go now! We must destroy this bacterium before it makes her sick! We cannot let that happen her Lora. As of right now‚ we are entering the right femoral vein‚ close to the groin. The right femoral vein is parallel with the femoral artery through the upper thigh and pelvic region. It is one of the larger veins in the body. The femoral vein returns blood into the leg to the heart through the iliac vein. The right femoral vein comes from the abdomen. This vein collects blood from many

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