Anatomy of the CVS 1 Flashcards
What is the cardiovascular system composed of?
Heart
Blood vessels
Lymphatics
What are the different kinds of blood vessels?
Arteries
Capillaries
Veins
What is the heart?
Muscular pump
What is the function of arteries?
Distribute blood from the heart
What is the function of capillaries?
Exchange nutrients
What is the function of veins?
Collect and return blood to the heart
What is the function of lymphatics?
Collect and return blood to the heart
Where is the heart located?
Middle mediastinum
Where are blood vessels located?
Everywhere apart from cartilage
Where are lymphatics located?
Everywhere apart from the brain and eyes
What are the different parts of the mediastinum?
Superior mediastinum
Inferior mediastinum
Anterior mediastinum
Posterior mediastinum
Middle mediastinum
Where is the superior mediastinum?
T4 to sternal angle and above, following, the first rib
Where is the inferior mediastinum?
Everywhere below the superior mediastimum (below the first rib)
Where is the anterior mediastinum?
In front of the heart
Where is the posterior mediastinum?
Behind the heart
What does the middle mediastinum contain?
The heart
What are the 2 main circulations of the cardiovascular system?
Pulmonary circulation
Systemic circulation
Where does pulmonary circulation go from?
Heart - lungs - heart
Where does systemic circulation go from?
Heart - body - heart
What additional circulations does the cardiovascular system contain?
Portal circulation
Lymphatic circulation
What is the most important portal circulation?
Hepatic portal circulation
What are portal systems?
Ones that begin in capillaries, narrows into a single channel (vein) and ends up in a different set of capillaries
What are the great vessels of the heart?
Superior and inferior vena cava
Aorta (ascending, arch, descending)
Pulmonary veins (2 left and 2 right)
Pulmonary trunk going into right and left pulmonary artery
What direction is the heart facing?
Directed towards the left
What are the consequences of the heart being directed towards the left?
Right side of the heart is facing anterior
Left side of the heart is facing posterior
What are the 3 parts of the aorta?
Ascending aorta
Aortic branch
Descending aorta
What does the ascending aorta supply?
Head and upper limbs
What does the descending aorta supply?
Abdomen and lower limbs
What vertebrae level is the aortic arch?
T4
What are the 3 vessels that the aortic arch braches into?
Bronchiocephalic artery (seperates into right common carotid and right subclavian artery)
Left common carotid artery
Left subclavian artery
What does the bronchiocephalic artery split into?
Right common carotid artery
Right subclavian artery
Which side of the aortic branch splits into the bronchiocephalic artery?
Right
Where is the apex of the heart?
Lowest part
What is seen in the anterior view of the heart?
Right atrium
Right ventricle
What is seen in the posterior view of the heart?
Left atrium
Left ventricle
Where is the base of the heart?
Opposite the apex (left atrium)
What chamber makes up the apex of the heart?
Left ventricle
What chamber makes the base of the heart?
Left atrium
Where does the apex of the heart lie?
Intecostal space 5 in the midclavicular line
What is A?
Right ventricle
What is B?
Right atrium
What is C?
Azygos vein
What is D?
Aorta
What is E?
Left atrium
What is F?
Right ventricle
What vertebrae does the heart lie between in recumbent position?
T5 and T8
What is the recumbent position?
Lying down
What is the surface anatomy of the apex?
5th left intercostal space in the midclavicular line
Where is the base located?
Wholy posterior, lying in front of the oesophagus
How does the heart compare in children?
Higher in children
What is dextrocardia?
Heart faces the right instead of the left
What is it called when the heart faces the right instead of the left?
Dextrocardia
What happens to the vertabrae level of the heart when you stand up?
It changes
What is found anterior to the heart?
Sternum and costal cartilage 4-7
What is found posterior to the heart?
Oesophagus
Descending aorta
Thoracic vertebrae 5-8
What is found lateral to the heart?
Lungs
Phrenic nerves
What is found inferior to the heart?
Central tendon of diaphragm
What is the vertebrae level of the sternal angle?
T4
What are the 3 layers of the heart wall?
Endocardium
Myocardiam
Epicardium
What is found after the epicardial layer?
Pericardial cavity
Parietal layer of serous pericardium
Fibrous pericardium