Atrium (heart) similar function. Some animals (amphibians and reptiles) have a three-chambered heart, in which the blood from each atrium is mixed in the single ventricle before being pumped to the aorta. In these animals, the left atrium still serves the purpose of collecting blood from the pulmonary veins. In some fish, the circulatory system is very simple: a two-chambered heart including one atrium and one ventricle. Among sharks, the heart consists of four chambers arranged serially (and therefore called a serial heart): blood flows into the most posterior chamber, the sinus venosus, and then to the atrium which moves it to
Arabella (given name) Arabella (given name) Arabella is a female given name of Scottish origin. The earliest known namesake: Arabella de Leuchars (c.1135-1203): was a granddaughter of the Scottish king William the Lion; the earliest English namesake was the granddaughter of Arabella de Leuchars: Arabella de Quincy (c.1186-1258), the daughter of Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester. Typically of medieval bearers of the name both these Arabellas are also documented as Orabel[la] and Orabilia, and in documents which Latinize names as Orabilis. A Latin construction which suffixes "orare" with "ābilis" - thus interpretable as "given to prayer" or "entreatable" - Orabilis has