Your Heart and How it Works

                                                                    RIGHT HEART:                                                             LEFT HEART:
Receives blood from                                                             Receives oxygen-full
the body and pumps it                                                          blood from the lungs
through the pulmonary                                                         and pumps it  through
artery to the lungs where                                                       the arota to the body.
it picks up fresh oxygen and
gives off carbon dioxide.

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