Pulmonary circulation

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The pulmonary circulation is the circuit through which the lungs receive deoxygenated blood from the right side of the heart, and supply oxygenated blood to the left side of the heart.

**Figure 1. Pulmonary circulation** (Credit: OpenStax, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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The body's circulatory system can be split into two: the systemic and the pulmonary circulation.

The systemic circulation

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