How Blood Flows Through the Heart Body - Cleveland Clinic After delivering oxygen and nutrients to all your organs and tissues, your blood enters your heart and flows to your lungs to gain oxygen and get rid of waste It then flows back to your heart, which pumps the refreshed blood out through your aorta to nourish your body again
How Your Circulatory System Works - Cleveland Clinic After leaving the tissues and organs, your blood returns to your heart through veins The blood travels through your heart and lungs to get oxygenated again and repeat the process This happens thousands of times each day, with every beat of your heart
Great Vessels of the Heart: Anatomy Function - Cleveland Clinic The great vessels of the heart are major blood vessels that connect directly to your heart These arteries and veins circulate blood between your heart and lungs, and between your heart and the rest of your body
Heart: Anatomy Function - Cleveland Clinic Your heart contains four muscular sections (chambers) that briefly hold blood before moving it Electrical impulses make your heart beat, moving blood through these chambers
Chambers of the Heart - Cleveland Clinic The four heart chambers and four valves work together to separate the oxygen-rich blood from the oxygen-poor blood When healthy, the structure of your chambers and valves allows blood to flow in the right direction
What Is Hemodynamics? - Cleveland Clinic If you have an issue with your heart or blood vessels, your blood may not be flowing well through your body Your provider can evaluate you and give you a treatment that improves your blood flow