Question

how does a heart work? ( in simple words )

Answer 1

Heart is a pumping organ that beats continuously and pumps oxygen-rich blood to all parts of the body and carbon dioxide-rich blood to the lungs. It is located in the chest cavity and is approximately the size of your fist.

It is divided into four chambers – right auricle (atrium), right ventricle, left auricle (atrium), and left ventricle.

• The right auricle contracts and passes the deoxygenated blood to the right ventricle, through an auriculo-ventricular aperture (tricuspid valve).
• The right ventricle contracts and passes the deoxygenated blood into the two pulmonary arteries, which pumps it to the lungs where the blood is oxygenated. From the lungs, the pulmonary veins transport the oxygenated blood to the left atrium of the heart.
• The left atrium contracts and through the auriculo-ventricular aperture (bicuspid valve), the oxygenated blood enters the left ventricle.
• The blood passes to aorta from the left ventricle. The aorta gives rise to many arteries that distribute the oxygenated blood to all the regions of the body.

Since the blood goes twice through the heart, it is known as double circulation.