What is Vitamin C needed for in the human body? One of the role of vitamin C is to play a role in making the protein, collagen. Collagen is found in various places such as the connective tissue (helps hold joints togeth â¦ er for example).
The left ventricle receives the clean blood from the left atrium and pumps it into the aorta, which is the largest artery in the body. The aorta then carries the blood to the rest of the body. Another difference between the atrium and ventricles is the valves they are attached to. Heart valves serve as a sort of seal, which open when blood is pumped from one area to the other and closes to prevent the blood from leaking backward.
(The right ventricle only has to get blood into the lungs, which are just next door. The left ventricle is what pumps oxygenated blood into every other part of the body.) That's why you may feel your heartbeat more strongly on the left side than the right. But that doesn't mean your heart is on the left. That's where your left lung goes. A small number of people have a condition called dextrocardia, in which the heart is flipped and actually tilts to the right. Sometimes this mirror-image anatomy extends to all their organs, an even rarer condition called situs inversus.