The newly oxygen-rich blood (shown in red) returns to the heart and enters the left atrium. Blood flows through the left atrium into the left ventricle. The left ventricle pumps the oxygen-rich ...

Cut through the coracoid bar and pull back to fully open the pericardial cavity. Locate the vessels entering and leaving the heart and the 2 heart chambers - atrium and ventricle. Look at diagram of ...

One standard test is an echocardiogram (echo), a noninvasive ultrasound of the heart that uses sound waves to produce images. An echocardiogram shows how blood flows through the heart, how the ...

blood flows into the heart from a vein, goes into an atrium, then a ventricle, and out through an artery. The valves prevent the blood flowing backwards. The heart is relaxed and blood flows into ...

Originally appeared on the NOVA Web site Cut to the Heart. Let's get straight to the heart of the matter—the heart's job is to move blood. Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and ...