Cardiovascular System. Flashcards
Define an artery?
A blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart.
Define the atria-ventricular ostium?
Another word for the atria ventricular orifice.
Define the auricles of the heart?
Ear-like appendages that are part of each ventricle and serve to increase the capacity of the ventricles.
Define the atrium?
The lower 2 chambers of the heart, they will release blood from the heart to the lungs or to the body.
Define the inter-atrial septum?
The structure that divides the left and right atria.
Define the moderator band?
Another name for the trabecular septomarginalis.
Define a myocyte?
An individual cardiac muscle cell.
Define the pericardium?
A fibroserous material that wraps around the heart and consists of 2 distinct layers.
Define a vein?
A blood vessel that carries blood towards the heart.
Define the ventricles?
The ventricles are the lower 2 chambers and they will release blood to the lungs or the body.
What 4 things does the cardiovascular system consist of?
The heart.
The blood.
Veins.
Arteries.
What is pericardium?
A fibroserous material that wraps around and completely covers the heart.
What are the 2 different layers of pericardium that can be found within the heart?
The fibrous outer layer.
The serous inner layer.
What is the name of the space that lies between the inner and outer layers of pericardium?
The pericardial cavity.
What can found within the pericardial cavity?
A liquid substance known as pericardial fluid.
What kind of material makes up the outer layer of pericardium?
A tough fibrous material.
What strucutres does the tough fibrous material that makes up the outer layer of the pericardium enclose?
The heart.
The inner layer of pericardium.
A small amount of fluid.
What is the outer layer of pericardium covered by?
Pericardial mediastinal pleura.
How is the inner layer of serous pericardium arranged?
It is arranged in 2 layers that are separated by the pericardial cavity.
What are the 2 layers that make up serous pericardium?
A visceral layer.
A parietal layer.
What is the visceral layer of the serous pericardium?
It is the smooth outer covering of the heart.
What is the parietal layer of the serous pericardium?
It covers the inner surface of the fibrous pericardium.
What is the heart used for?
To pump blood to every corner of the body.
What does the shape of the heart resemble?
A cone.
If the heart is shaped like a cone, where is the base located?
The base is located in the dorsal extremity of the heart.
If the heart is shaped like a cone, where is the apex or point located?
The apex is usually slanted off the the left and points both ventrally and caudally.
Where will large blood vessels enter the heart?
At the base.
What are the 2 surfaces of the heart known as?
The auricular surface.
The atrial surface.
What is the auricular surface of the heart?
The surface that faces towards the left thoracic wall.
The tips of both auricles face towards this side.
What is the atrial surface of the heart?
This surface that faces towards the right thoracic wall.
What are the 3 grooves of the heart?
The coronary groove.
The intra-ventricular groove.
Inter-ventricular grooves.
What is coronary groove also known as?
As the coronary sulcus.
Where is the coronary groove located?
It wraps around the base of the heart and lies between the atria and the ventricles.
What is found within the coronary groove?
Fat and some coronary vessels.
Where is the intra-ventricular groove found?
Between the right and left ventricles.
The intra-ventricular groove represents the approximate poasition of what feature of the heart?
The intra-ventricular septum.
What are the inter ventricular grooves?
2 other grooves that link the left and right ventricles
What are the names of the inter ventricular grooves?
The paraconal inter ventricular groove.
The subsinal inter ventricular groove.
Where is the paraconal intra-ventricular located?
On the left side of the subsinal inter ventricular groove.
Where is the subsinal intra-ventricular located?
On the dorsocaudal surface of the heart.
What are the 3 different tissue layers that make up the heart?
The epicardium (outermost layer).
The myocardium (middle layer).
The epicardium (innermost layer).
The epicardium makes up what layer of tissue within the heart?
The outermost layer.
What other layers of the heart are included in the epicardium?
The visceral layer of the serous pericardium.
What material is the epicardium made up of?
A thin, transparent later that surrounds the myocardium.
What is the myocardium composed of?
Cardiac muscle.
What layer of the heart makes up most of the heart?
The myocardium.
What layer of the heart is responsible for producing the pumping action that the heart is famous for?
The myocardium.
What layer of the heart is made up by the endocardium?
The innermost layer.
What is the endocardium made up of?
A thin layer of endothelium that surrounds the chambers of the heart.
The layer of endocardium is continuous with what lining?
It is continuous with the endothelial lining of the large blood vessels that enter the heart.
What major strucutres are found within the interior of the heart?
The 4 distinct chambers.
How are the 4 chambers of the heart arranged?
There are 2 dorsal cranial chambers that are known as atria.
There are 2 ventral chambers known as ventricles.
What do the 2 atrial chambers consist of?
The left and right atrium.
What are the auricles that are attached to the atria?
Ear like structures that serve to increase the carrying capacity of the atrium.
What is the structure that divides the left and right atria?
The inter-atrial septum.
What is the job of the atria?
To receive blood that has been transported to the heart by the veins from either from the lungs or the body.
The right atrium recieves blood from which 2 major veins?
The cranial veina cava and the caudal veina cava.