Anatomy of the Heart 2 Flashcards
One sign which clearly distingishes heart attack?
Sweating along with chest pain.
Sulcus terminalis.
Right border of the heart. Near vena cavas.
Inferior border of the heart.
Sepearates sternocostal and diphragmatic surfaces. Line from inferior vena cava to apex.
What can be found near the Base of the heart?
Pulmonary Veins.
The sternocostal surface of the heart comprises of?
Sternocostal - 2/3 right ventricle 1/3 left ventricle.
Atrioventricular groove.
Divide the base of the heart from the diaphragmatic surface. Location of the coronary sinus.
Left descending artery.
Branch of the left coronary artery, very important in myocardial infarction.
Coronary artery.
The first branch of the aorta. What is peculiar about this artery because it is the only artery that gets filled up during dystole. When the heart contracts this artery is compressed so blood is forced out.
Right coronary artery supplies which parts of the heart?
It supplies the right atrium and ventricles. On the ventricle it does not however supply a small strip near some groove. It supplies the inter arterial septum, the inferior one third of the inter ventricular septum, a small part of the posterior left ventricle, the SAN and AVN.
Left coronary artery.
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Interventricular groove.
Site for anastamoses between two coronary arteries (anterior and posterior).
Pericardial sinuses.
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Transverse pericardial sinus.
Embryology. Between the arterial and venous ends.
Right border of the heart.
Between superior and inferior vena cava.
Crista terminalis.
Divides the atria from a rough part to a smooth part.
What does The rough part contain?
Muscular pectinae. Trabeculae carnae.
The smooth part.
Clinically important? ALl chambers have a rough part and a smooth part. Smooth part is the outflow part, rough part inflow.
Sino Atrial Node.
Junction between sulcus terminalis and superior vena cava.
Atrio Ventricular Node.
Triangle of Kock, septal leaflet of the tricuspid valve.
Tendon of todaro.
Stimulants of the SA node goes to the AV node. A highway, a fibrous skeleton just below the endocardium. Allow quick transport of impulse.
Papillary muscles.
Connected via chordae tendinae to the cusps.
Trabeculae carnae.
Bridges ridges and papillary muscles.
Pulmonary valve.
1 posterior cusp and 2 anterior.
Aortic valve.
2 anterior cusps and 1 posterior cusp.
How ventricles contract.
In a spiral, as the blood goes in right angles. Blood is spiraled to the aorta by the left ventricle.
All have valves except for.
Superior vena cava.
Why we have the chordae tendinae.
To prevent the backflow of the valves.
Moderator Band.
Septomarginal trabeculae - found in the right ventricle and provides a shorcut to the right ventricle bypassing purkinje fibres.
Fossa ovalis.
Closed foramen ovale located in posterior inferior surface of the septum secondum.
Define Limbus.
Border.
What are the Venae cordis minimae.
Small vains which drain blood from the heart into the right atrium.
What area is the Conus arteriosus?
Outflow track of the right ventricle.
What are Trabecula carnae?
Muscular Irregular part on the inflow portion of the right ventricle.
Relate papillary muscles and trabecula carnae?
The trabecula carnae that attach to chordae tendinae are papillary muscles.
How many papillary muscles are in the right ventricle?
Three, same as the number of cusps in the tricuspid valve. The septal papillary muscle or the smallest papillary muscle however can be absent. The other two other the anterior (larger) and posterior.
What is the moderator band.
It is a specialised trabeculum which carries a portion of the cardiac conduction system ( the right bundle of the antrioventricular bundle to the anterior wall of the right ventricle).