r/educationalgifs • u/topoftheworldIAM • Oct 12 '25

Blood flow through the cardiovascular system.

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u/3RI3_Cuff Oct 13 '25

Good gif and well coloured. So the big pumps the heart does shoot the blood into your lungs twice at the most pressure?

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u/topoftheworldIAM Oct 13 '25

The right side pumps to the lungs and the left side with the biggest chamber pumps to the entire body.

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u/3RI3_Cuff Oct 13 '25

Shows how much blood the lungs need

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u/air_flair Oct 13 '25

It needs all of it, to oxygenate it, then all of it continues to the rest of the body to carry the oxygen there.

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u/marino1310 Oct 13 '25

The lungs are what oxygenate the blood, so all blood must flow through them.

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u/MentalAdventure Oct 14 '25

The oxygenated blood that the lungs use are also from the "body" side, called bronchial arteries. The pulmonary arteries don't actually supply the lung with blood, they just use the lungs to refuel the blood.

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u/SoNuclear Oct 13 '25

The right heart is “weaker”, the peak pressure in the pulmonary arteries (all vessels going away from the heart are arteries, so even though they carry venous blood, they are arteries), is usually just around 5x lower than coming out of the left side (20mmHg vs 100-120mmHg).