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Figure 2.1 The heart. (From E. N. Marieb, Human Anatomy and Physiology, 3 rd ed.<br />

<strong>New</strong> York: The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc., 1995.)<br />

The heart, illustrated in Figure 2.1, is divided into two functional halves, each<br />

half containing two chambers: an atrium and a ventricle. The atrium <strong>of</strong> each side<br />

empties into the ventricle on that side. There is no direct flow between the two atria or<br />

the two ventricles in a healthy individual. Blood is pumped by the pulmonary circuit<br />

from the right ventricle through the lungs and then into the left atrium. The blood is then<br />

pumped by the systemic circuit, from the left ventricle, through all the tissues <strong>of</strong> the<br />

body except the lungs, and then to the right atrium.

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