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The circulatory and respiratory systems work together to sustain the body with

oxygen and remove carbon dioxide.


The heart pumps oxygenated blood out of the left ventricle and into the aorta
to begin systemic circulation. After the blood has supplied cells throughout the
body with oxygen and nutrients, it returns deoxygenated blood to the heart’s
right atrium. The deoxygenated blood shoots down from the right atrium to the
right ventricle. The heart then pumps it out of the right ventricle and into the
pulmonary arteries to begin pulmonary circulation. The blood moves to the
lungs, exchanges carbon dioxide for oxygen, and returns to the left atrium.
The oxygenated blood shoots from the left atrium to the left ventricle below, to
begin systemic circulation again.
In the systemic loop, oxygenated blood is pumped from the left ventricle of the
heart through the aorta, the largest artery in the body. The blood moves from
the aorta through the systemic arteries, then to arterioles and capillary beds
that supply body tissues. Here, oxygen and nutrients are released and carbon
dioxide and other waste substances are absorbed. Deoxygenated blood then
moves from the capillary beds through venules into the systemic veins. The
systemic veins feed into the inferior and superior venae cavae, the largest
veins in the body. The venae cavae flow deoxygenated blood to the right
atrium of the heart.

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