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RIGHT ATRIUM

Right atrium
Anterior (frontal) view of the opened heart. White arrows indicate normal blood flow.
Interior of right side of heart.
Latin atrium dextrum
Gray's subject #138 528
MeSH A07.541.358
Dorlands/Elsevier a_71/12167861

The right atrium is one of four chambers (two atria and two ventricles) in the human heart. It receives de-oxygenated blood from the superior and inferior vena cavae and the coronary sinus, and pumps it into the right ventricle through the tricuspid valve.

Attached to the right atrium is the right auricular appendix.

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Cardiovascular system - Heart - edit
atria (interatrial septum) | ventricles (interventricular septum) | valves (chordae tendinaepapillary muscle)

right heart(vena cavaecoronary sinus) → right atrium (fossa ovalis) → tricuspid valve → right ventricle → pulmonic valve 
(pulmonary artery and pulmonary circulation)

left heart: (pulmonary veins)left atriummitral valveleft ventricleaortic valve
(aortaaortic sinus and systemic circulation)

pericardium | epicardium | endocardium | myocardium

conduction systemcardiac pacemaker | Purkinje fibers | bundle of His | SA node | AV node