Your heart is an extraordinary machine.

During your lifetime, you heart’s muscular walls pump

blood into blood vessels branching throughout your body.

Your hear has four chambers. Two upper chambers called the left and right atria and two lower
chambers called the left and right ventricles contract in a steady rhythm known as your
heartbeat. During a normal heartbeat, blood from your tissues and lungs flows into your atria.
The into your ventricles. Walls inside your heart called the interatrial and interventricular
spectrum help keep the blood on left and right sides from mixing. Two valves sit like doors
between your atria and ventricle to prevent blood from flowing backward into your atria. The
tricuspid valve opens into your right ventricle and the bicuspid valve also known as the mitral
valve opens into your left ventricle
strong thin tissues called chordae tendinay hold your valve in place during the forceful
contractions of your ventricles. Blood leaving the ventricles passes thru another set of valves,
the pulmonary valve between your right ventrciel and the pulmonary trunk. And the aortic
valve connecting your left ventricle and aorta.

In order to pump blood more efficiently, you heart muscle called myocardium is arranged in a
unique pattern. 3 layers of myocardium wrap around the lower part of your heart. They twist
and tighten in different directions to push blood thru your heart. When special cells called
pacemaker cells generate electrical signals inside your heart, the heat muscle cells called
myocytes contract as a group.

Your hearts is divided into right and left half which works together like a dual pump. On the
right side of your heart, deoxygenated blood from your body’s tissues flows thru large veins
called the superior and inferior vena cava into your right atrium. Next, the blood moves into
your right ventricle which contracts and sends blood out of your heart to your lungs, to gather
oxygen and get rid of carbon dioxide. On the left side of your heart, oxygen rich blood from
your lungs flows thru your pulmonary veins into your left atrium. The blood then moves into
your left ventricle which contracts and sends blood out of your heart thru the aorta to feed
your cells and tissues.

The first branches of your aorta are the coronary arteries which supply your heart muscle with
oxygen and nutrients. At the top of your aorta, arteries branch off to carry blood to your head
and arms. Arteries branching from the middle and lower parts of your aorta supply blood to the
rest of your body. Your heart beats to an average of 60-100 beats per minute. And that 1 min,
your heart pumps 5 quartz of blood thru your arteries, delivering a steady stream of oxygen and
nutrients all over your body.

Good day! We have here the anatomy of the heart. We are all familiar of heart since we can see
this during valentines and even we have one in our own bodies.
Now note that Your heart is a pump. It’s a muscular organ about the size of the fist and is
located slightly left of center in your chest. So theo re tic ally speaking, this is the size of my
heart.
Moreover, heart is divided into the right and left side. The division protects oxygen poor blood
from mixing with oxygen rich blood.
Together your heart and blood vessels comprise your cardiovascular system which circulates
blood and oxygen around the body.
Allow me to firstly introduce to you the major parts of the heart.
This is the inferior vena cava where blood from lower parts of the body enters while superior
vena cava where blood from upper parts of the body enters. This is the right atrium, tricuspid
valve, right ventricle, pulmonary vlave, p artery,
The lungs refresh the blood with a new supply of oxygen making it turn red.
pulmonary vein, left atrium, bicuspid or mitral valve, left ventricle, aortic valve, aorta
Oxygen poor blood, blue blood returns to the heart after circulating thru your body. The right
side of the heart composed of the right atrium and ventricule, collects and pumps the blood to
the lungs thru the pulmonary arteries.

Oxygen rich blood, red blood, then enters the left side of the heart composed of the left atrium
and ventricle. And is pumped thru the aorta to the body to supply tissues with oxygen. 4 valves
within your heart keep your blood moving the right way, the tricuspid, mitral, pulmonary and
aortic valves work like gates on a fence. They open only one way and only when pushed on.
Each valve opens and closes once per heart beat or about once every second. A beating heart
contracts and relaxes. Contraction is called systole and relaxing is called diastole. During systole,
your ventricles contract forcing blood into the vessels going to your lungs and body. Much like a
ketchup being forced out of the squeeze bottle, the right ventricle contracts a little bit before
the left ventricle does. Your ventricles then relax during diastole and are filled with blood
coming from the upper chambers the left and right atria. Then cycle starts over again. Your
heart is nourished by blood too. Blood vessels called coronary arteries extend over the surface
of your heart and branch into smaller capillaries.

The heart beats in a coordinated and normal rhythm which keeps the blood circulating. The
continuous exchange of oxygen rich blood and o poor blood is what keeps you alive