Blood Circulation

Usually the term “circulation” is used to describe a complex system responsible for moving blood throughout our bodies but actually circulation includes the heart, arteries, veins and lymph vessels. This page is about blood circulation.

Circulation of blood through the heart

The heart is a large muscular organ which constantly pushes oxygen-rich blood to the brain also the extremities. Blood comes in to the right atrium from the body and then moves in to the right ventricle and is pushed in the pulmonary arteries that are located in the lungs. The pulmonary arteries then push the veins in to the left atrium and then to the left ventricle and finally our the body’s tissues through the aorta.

Diseases affecting circulation are common in modern society.

Some of them are coronary artery disease, peripheral arterial disease, cerebro-vascular disease, venous insufficiency of lower extremities, abdominal aortic aneurysm and many more. Presence of normal physiological circulation is the first and the most essential condition of normal function of tissue or an organ.

The famous proverb says: “You are only as old as you circulation is”.