and describe the direction and type of blood (oxygenated ot nonoxygenated) that flows through this valve.
Mitral valve has two cusps. The blood flows from the lungs, where it is oxygenated, into the left atrium then through the mitral valve into the left ventricle. From here it flows through the aortic valve to the rest of the body. Two cusps, oxygenated blood.
Mitral valve has two cusps. It is located between the left atrium and the left ventricle , oxygenated blood comes from the lungs by pulmonary veins and drains into the left atrium then the left atrium pumps this oxygenated blood through the mitral valve into the left ventricle. After that the left ventricle contracts pumping the blood through the aortic valve to the aorta..
