HUMAN HEART

&
ITS
COMPONENTS
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 oUdam Singh

oReshpal Singh

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• Human Heart
• Blood Vessels
• Blood
• Lymph

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 • To Know the structure and
working of human heart.
• To know about the blood and its
various components.
• Some heart related diseases.
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• It is situated at the left
side of thoracic cavity.
It is a highly muscular
organ which pumps the
blood to all over the
body.
• It is triangular in
shape.
• It provides
nourishment to the
whole body and
removes the waste
material.
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• Heart is divided into 4
parts i.e. 2 auricles and
2 ventricles.
• Auricles are smaller
and lie above the large
sized ventricles.
• Auricles receives blood
from various parts and
ventricles pump out
the blood to concerned
parts.

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• The vessels which carry blood
to various parts and back to
heart are known as blood
vessels
• These are of 3 types:
3. Artery
4. Vein
5. Capillary
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• It is the vessel
which carries
oxygenated blood
to various parts
except pulmonary
artery.
• It is without any
valves so the blood
flows freely.
• Dorsal aorta is the
largest artery in
the body.

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• It is the vessel
which carries
deoxygenated blood
to various parts
except the
pulmonary vein
which carries
oxygenated blood.
• Superior and
inferior vena cava
are the largest
veins in the body.

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• These are the
smallest blood
vessels where the
arteries and veins
meet
• The exchange of
various types of
nutrition, gases
and waste material
between tissues
and blood take
place here.
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 • Blood is the fluid connective
tissue of the body.
• It is red in colour due to
presence of a pigment
HAEMOGLOBIN.
• It circulates in the whole
body.

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Blood has following components:
• Blood Plasma
• Red Blood Corpuscles
• White Blood Corpuscles
• Blood Platelets.

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• It is the liquid part of blood.
• It has various types of proteins
which protect us from various
diseases.
• It is mainly made up of water
and forms the major part of
blood.
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• These are red in colour due to
presence of heamoglobin
• They carry oxygen to various
parts of the body and take
carbon dioxide to the lungs for
removal.
• Their life span is of 120 days.

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• These are the main defenders of
our body from various diseases.
• They are amoeboid in shape.
• Their life span is 7 days.

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 • These are helpful in blood
clotting.
• They protect the body from
excess loss of blood.
• Vit K is needed for their
formation.
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• It is the colourless fluid
connective tissue.
• It is secreted from lymph nodes.
• It produces antibodies which
protect the body from various
pathogens and diseases.

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1 Heart Attack
2 Vein Blockage
3 Failure of Valves
4 Blood Pressure
5 Increase in heart size

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 Heart is located at
 carries oxygenated blood.
 is the largest artery.
 protect the body from diseases.
 RBC carries to the tissue.
 Lymph is secreted from .
 is necessary for blood clotting.

Aortic arch WBC

thoracic cavity. Artery
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Vit K
• Text book of
Punjab School
Education Board
Class X.
• Pictures from
INTERNET.

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• We are greatly thankful to our
computer teachers.

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