BIOM 2000 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Pulmonary Artery, Mean Arterial Pressure, Capillary

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Identified the heart as the most important organ of the body (intelligence, motion and sensation) organs surrounded it-brain, lungs-just to cool the heart) He described it as 3-chambered organ, center of vitality of the body (other. Heart itself is not beginning of life but vessel made of dense muscle vivified and nourished by an artery and a vein as are the other muscles. : micro-circulation, only 1 cell thick (high resistance so blood moves slow, and are metabolically active for gas exchange) : small vein: (pulmonary and systemic vessels, pulmonary circuit. 2 different circulatory systems linked and function in sync: returns blood to the left side of the heart. : pumps blood from right side of the heart to the lungs: systemic circuit body then returns blood back to right side. : pumps blood from left side of the heart to all parts of the. Pulmonary circuit (from right side of heart to lungs): blood releases co2, picks up oxygen.

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