Cardiovascular Follow Up Questions

What is the difference between the arteries and veins?

• veins carry blood to heart

• arteries carry blood away from heart

• arteries carry oxygenated blood (except in pulmonary arteries)

• veins carry deoxygenated blood

1. Deoxygenated blood in right atrium goes through _____________ into right ventricle

tricuspid valve

2. In right ventricle, goes through ___________ into pulmonary arteries → lungs for oxygen

pulmonary valve

3. Oxygenated blood travels to heart though _____________,

pulmonary veins

3. 3. enters the left atrium. Passes through ___________ into left ventricle,

mitral valve

3. 6. then through __________ into aorta

aortic valve

4. Aorta carries oxygenated blood Into body. It returns deoxygenated to heart by the _____________.

vena cava