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Describe The Difference Between Right Atrium And Right Ventricles

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The heart is made up of four chambers, two atriums and two ventricles. The right side of the heart receives deoxygenated blood and pumps the blood to the lungs, whereas the left side of the heart receives the oxygenated blood from the lungs and pumps it to the rest of the body.
The right side of the heart consists of the right atrium and right ventricle. The right atrium receives the deoxygenated blood via the vena cava (both the inferior and superior) from the rest of the body. The blood then travels through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle where it then gets pumped to the lungs, where gas exchange can occur. The chambers on the left side of the heart are the left ventricle and atrium. The left atrium receives the oxygenated blood from the lungs via the pulmonary vein. It is then pumped through the atrioventricular valve into the left ventricle, where it is pumped through the aorta and to the rest of the body. One adaptation of the heart is the thickness of the walls. The ventricles have thicker walls than the atria as blood gets pumped out with higher pressures. The left ventricle is even thicker as it must withstand the …show more content…

The contraction, known as systole, pumps blood out of the heart. The relaxion phase, diastole, is when the heart muscles relax, and fill will blood. These cause the stereotypical heart sounds, ‘lub’ and ‘dub’. The ‘lub’ occurs when the atrioventricular valves close, and the ‘dub’ when the semilunar valves close.
An athletes heart has some slight adaptations that make it more efficient. In response to endurance training, both the right and left ventricles expanded. For strength athletes, the muscle of the heart thickened, but only for the left ventricle. These adaptations cause the heart to pump blood more effectively as the myocardial contractions are more forceful, and the filling and ejection of blood from the heart chambers is

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