Blood leaving the right ventricle flows into the:

• A. Pulmonary Arteries
• B. Aorta
• C. Pulmonary Veins
• D. Superior Vena Cava

Answer: (A)

When blood leaves the right ventricle, it is pumped into the pulmonary artery to travel to the lungs for oxygenation. This vessel carries blood away from the heart in the pulmonary circuit, delivering deoxygenated blood to the lungs before it returns to the left side of the heart. The aorta would carry blood from the left ventricle to the body, the pulmonary veins bring oxygenated blood back to the heart, and the superior vena cava returns systemic blood to the right atrium. So the vessel receiving blood directly from the right ventricle is the pulmonary artery.