Pulmonary circulation is a division of the circulatory system in all vertebrates.
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21 Facts About Pulmonary circulation
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Blood vessels of the pulmonary circulation are the pulmonary arteries and the pulmonary veins.
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Pulmonary circulation arteries carry deoxygenated blood to the lungs, where carbon dioxide is released and oxygen is picked up during respiration.
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The blood is then distributed to the body through the systemic circulation before returning again to the pulmonary circulation.
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Pulmonary circulation is archaically known as the "lesser circulation" which is still used in non-English literature.
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Discovery of the pulmonary circulation has been attributed to many scientists with credit distributed in varying ratios by varying sources.
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The Egyptians knew that air played an important role in Pulmonary circulation but did not yet have a conception of the role of the lungs.
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Pulmonary circulation believed that the function of these vessels was to bring the "spirit" and air to the brain.
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Pulmonary circulation proposed that this spirit was internalized by pulmonary respiration.
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Pulmonary circulation described the heart as having two ventricles connected by an interventricular septum, and depicted the heart as the nexus point of all of the vessels of the body.
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Pulmonary circulation proposed that some vessels carried only blood and that others carried only air.
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Pulmonary circulation hypothesized that these air-carrying vessels were divisible into the pulmonary veins, which carried in air to the left ventricle, and the pulmonary artery, which carried in air to the right ventricle and blood to the lungs.
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Pulmonary circulation proposed the existence of two atria of the heart functioning to capture air.
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Pulmonary circulation was one of the first to begin to accurately describe the anatomy of the heart and to describe the involvement of the lungs in circulation.
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Pulmonary circulation's descriptions built substantially on previous and contemporaneous efforts but, by modern standards, his conceptions of pulmonary circulation and of the functions of the parts of the heart were still largely inaccurate.
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Pulmonary circulation proposed that the liver was the originating point of all blood vessels.
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Pulmonary circulation theorized that the heart was not a pumping muscle but rather an organ through which blood passed.
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Pulmonary circulation veins transmitted this pneuma to the left ventricle of the heart to cool the blood simultaneously arriving there.
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Pulmonary circulation wrote that the right ventricle played a different role to the left: it transported blood to the lungs where the impurities were vented out so that clean blood could be distributed throughout the body.
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Pulmonary circulation described the anatomy of the lungs in clear and basically correct detail, which his predecessors had not.
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Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci was one of the first to propose that the heart was just a muscle, rather than a vessel of spirits and air, but he still subscribed to Galen's ideas of Pulmonary circulation and defended the existence of interventricular pores.
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