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the pressure curve for the aorta,
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for the ventricle, for the atrium,
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and you can visually correlate
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that with what's happening in each event.
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Late diastole,
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all the muscles are relaxed and blood is passively flowing back
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into the left atrium and through the mitral valve
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which is open to the left ventricle.
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When contraction begins,
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first in the atrium,
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blood is pumped into the ventricle.
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The role of atrial contraction is