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
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