Jun 30, 2017 | Know Your Heart
It goes round and round The atria receive blood from all the parts of the body and the lungs and push it into the ventricles. The ventricles contract and push blood through the huge Aorta and Pulmonary Artery and then through the whole body and the lungs respectively....
Jun 29, 2017 | Know Your Heart
Chambers The heart can be compared to a four room apartment or a house. An apartment has doors between rooms, so does the heart have valves. Just like doors, the valves open in a certain direction when blood flows through them.If the heart valves open in the reverse...
Jun 28, 2017 | Know Your Heart
Chambers The heart has four chambers, two atria (atrium-chamber) and two ventricles (cavities). There is an atrium and a ventricle on the right and one each, on the left side.
Jun 26, 2017 | Know Your Heart
Fancy Electric Pump Made of a special type of muscle, the heart has the remarkable capacity of beating on its own. While other muscles depend on the brain for movements, the heart has its own electrical impulse generator, which makes the heart beat about 60-80 times a...
