pulmonary circulation
Sign in to savethe portion of the cardiovascular system which carries deoxygenated blood away from the heart, to the lungs, and returns oxygenated blood back to the heart
Key facts
- System
- Circulatory system
- Mesh
- D011652
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Research
51,727 papers- Pulmonary Circulation Discovery Before Ibn Nafis-Ancient Persian and Greek Theories: A Narrative Review.JAMA cardiology · 2022
- Hypoxia and the pulmonary circulation.Thorax · 1994
- Pulmonary Circulation with Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2023
- Pulmonary circulation: introduction.Cor et vasa · 1980
- [Pulmonary edema. Physiology of pulmonary circulation and pathophysiology of pulmonary edema].Terapevticheskii arkhiv · 2006
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The pulmonary circulation is a division of the circulatory system in all vertebrates. The circuit begins with deoxygenated blood returned from the body to the right atrium of the heart where it is pumped out from the right ventricle to the lungs. In the lungs the blood is oxygenated and returned to the left atrium to complete the circuit.
The other division of the circulatory system is the systemic circulation that begins upon the oxygenated blood reaching the left atrium from the pulmonary circulation. From the atrium the oxygenated blood enters the left ventricle where it is pumped out to the rest of the body, then returning as deoxygenated blood back to the pulmonary circulation.