AQA GCSE Physical Education · 8582
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Revise: Heart structureThe two lower chambers are the ventricles: the right ventricle and left ventricle. An individual upper chamber is called an atrium.
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GCSE Physical Education · key term
A lower chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it out of the heart. The heart has a right ventricle and a left ventricle.
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Paper 1
Revise: Heart structureThe two lower chambers are the ventricles: the right ventricle and left ventricle. An individual upper chamber is called an atrium.
Paper 1
A lower chamber of the heart that pumps blood out of the heart.
Revise: Cardiovascular System Structure and FunctionThe right ventricle pumps blood containing relatively little oxygen to the lungs. There, blood gains oxygen and loses carbon dioxide before returning to the left atrium.
Atrium is singular; atria is plural. Ventricle is singular; ventricles is plural.
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