4.01 - Heart Flashcards
________ carry blood away from the heart
Arteries
________ carry blood towards the heart
Veins
Right side of heart pumps deoxygenated blood through ________ ________ to lungs
Pulmonary arteries
After oxygen pickup and carbon dioxide from lungs ________ ________ carry blood to left side of heart
pulmonary veins
left side of heart pumps oxygenated blood through ________ ________ to body cells
systemic arteries
Nutrients, respiratory gases and wastes are exchanged from body cells and ________ ________ carry blood to right side
Systemic veins
________ ________ from ascending aorta supply blood to heart walls
Coronary arteries
________ ________ drain blood back to right atrium
Cardiac veins
The heart is inside the ________ ________
Middle mediastinum
Sternal angle is the level of transverse thoracic plane
T- to T-
________ starts and ends at this level
T4-T5
Aorta
The heart is slightly rotated
________ border is located more anteriorly
Base of the heart: it’s posterosuperior surface is mainly the ________ atrium
________ ________ of the heart is formed by the great arterial vessels and the superior vena cava
right
left
superior border
The heart is slightly rotated
________ border is located more anteriorly
Base of the heart: it’s posterosuperior surface is mainly the ________ atrium
________ ________ of the heart is formed by the great arterial vessels and the superior vena cava
Right
Left
Superior border
________ is the inferior conical end
Apex
________ ________ is formed by right ventricle
Inferior border
The ________ ________is a tough sac around the heart that restricts heart movements within thorax
Fibrous pericardium
The serous pericardium has what two layers
Parietal and visceral
The ________ ________ is a thin space between the parietal and visceral layers of serous pericardium containing serous fluid
Pericardial caity
Fibrous pericardium is fused to ________ pericardium
Parietal
Visceral layer of serous pericardium is also called
Epicardium
The cardiac muscle and thickest of three layers is
Myocardium
The internal surface of heart chambers is called
Endocardium
Epicardium is made of what CT
Areolar
Endocardium is made of what 2 CTs
Simple squamous, areolar
The wall of the _________ ventricle is about 3 times thicker than the _________ ventricle
Left, Right
The 2 coordinated masses of fibers that coordinate the heart are called
Syncitiums
Cardiac muscle cells are arranged in _________ bundles around the heart chambers
When atria contract, they _________ the walls of the chambers inwards to move blood into ventricles
When _________ contracts, the heart contracts like the wringing of a mop;
- Begins at _________ of heart of heart and compresses superiorly, moving blood into the _________ _________
Spiral
Compress
Ventricles
Apex, great arteries
Heart development begins in week _________ of embryonic development.
- Heart tubes (endocardial tubes) form from the _________ and fuse in day 21
What are the expansions of the tube?
Tube folds to become S-shape
3
mesoderm
Sinus venosus, primitve atrium, primitive ventricle, bulbus cordis
What are the 2 fetal remnants?
Ligamentum arteriosum
Fossa ovalis