Anatomy and physiology for health practitioners

What you'll learn

1. 1

   Your heart is a pump about the size of your fist. It pushes blood all around your body through tubes called blood vessels.

2. 2

   Blood travels in a loop: heart → lungs (to pick up oxygen) → back to heart → body → back to heart again.

3. 3

   Let's trace the path of one drop of blood around the body.

4. 4

   Drag the labels to show which side of the heart pumps blood to the body.

5. 5

   Which side of the heart pumps oxygen-rich blood to the body?

6. 6

   Arteries carry blood AWAY from the heart. Veins carry blood BACK to the heart.

7. 7

   Do veins carry blood towards or away from the heart?