Foramen ovale (heart) ovale, the fossa ovalis. A fetus receives oxygen not from its lungs, but from the mother's oxygen-rich blood via the placenta. Oxygenated blood from the placenta travels through the umbilical cord to the right atrium of the fetal heart. As the fetal lungs are non-functional at this time, it is more efficient for the blood to bypass them. This is accomplished through 2 cardiac shunts. The first is the foramen ovale which shunts blood from the right atrium to the left atrium. The second is the ductus arteriosus which shunts blood from the pulmonary artery (which, after birth, carries blood
Ingrid (given name) but picked up again in the late 1970s, peaking above 1.5% in the 1990s. The name became popular outside of Scandinavia from the 1940s due to the fame of Ingrid Bergman. Ingrid (given name) Ingrid is a Scandinavian, German, and Dutch feminine given name. It continues the Old Norse name "Ingiríðr", which was a short form of "Ingfríðr", composed of the theonym "Ing" and the element "fríðr" "beloved; beautiful" common in Germanic feminine given names. The name Ingrid (more rarely in the variant "Ingerid" or "Ingfrid"; short forms "Inga, Inger, Ingri") remains widely given in all of Scandinavia, with the