Answers.com > Wiki Answers > Categories > Health > Cardiovascular Health > What are the differences in the two types of circulation?

What are the differences in the two types of circulation?

In: Cardiovascular Health [Edit categories]

Answer:

Systemic Circulation - Oxygenated blood is pumped from the left ventricle of the heart heart to the entire body (except the lungs) through the aorta and deoxygenated blood is drained back to the right atrium of the heart through the vena cavae.

Pulmonary Circulation - Deoxygenated blood is pumped from the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs through the pulmonary trunk, and oxygenated blood flows back to the left atrium of the heart through the pulmonary veins.

First answer by Starfishhhhh. Last edit by Starfishhhhh. Contributor trust: 0 [recommend contributor ]. Question popularity: 1 [recommend question].

[report abuse]

Can you answer these Cardiovascular Health questions?

	How does soda affect your heart?	Answer it!
	Does the respiratory system work with the digestive system?	Answer it!
	What is the effect of gravity on cardiac output?	Answer it!
	What is the driving force for blood flow to the tissues on the arterial side of the circuit?	Answer it!
	What are the current surgical operations and procedures for heart attack?	Answer it!

Relevant answers:

What are two types of circulation?
Pulmonary - carries oxygen-depleted blood away from the heart, to the lungs, and returns oxygenated blood back to the heart.Systemic - carries oxygenated blood away from the heart to the body, and...
What are the two types of circulation?
Describe the two types of circulation?
There are open circulatory systems and there are closed circulatory systems. In the open systems found in insects and invertebrates the fluid which carries the blood does not remain within any...
What are the two types of chromatin and what are the differences?
the two types of chromatins are euchromatin and heterochromatin.They are different in that heterochromatin is coiled while euchromatin is not coiled.It is this coiling that makes heterochromatin...
What is difference between the two types of mixtures?
A homogeneous mixture has two or more substances uniformly distributed throughout its volume. A heterogeneous mixture is a mixture of two or more substances not distributed evenly throughout its...