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Embryology 1 Flashcards

1
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What are the 4 major stages in heart development?

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  • Primitive heart tube
  • Heart looping
  • Atrial and ventricular septation
  • Outflow tract septation
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2
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When does heart development begin?

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3rd week

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3
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What forms the circulatory system?

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Lateral plate mesoderm

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4
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How are the 2 primitive heart tubes formed?

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Angiogenic cell islands collect in the lateral plate mesoderm, move towards the midline and coalesce

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5
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What is the first major system to function in the embryo?

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Cardiovascular system

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6
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When does the primordial heart start to function?

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Beginning of 4th week

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7
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Why does the cardiovascular system begin to function so early?

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The embryo is rapidly growing and nutrition by diffusion is not enough to satisfy the growing embryo

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8
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Where do blood vessels first appear?

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  • Wall of the yolk sac
  • Allantois
  • Connecting stalk
  • Chorion
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9
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What are angioblastic cords?

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Paired endothelial strands

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10
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When do angioblastic cords appear?

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3rd week

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11
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Where do angioblastic cords appear?

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Cariogenic mesoderm

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12
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What do angioblastic cords canalize to form?

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Heart tubes

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13
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What is formed when the tubular heart joins blood vessels in other areas?

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Primordial cardiovascular system

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14
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What is the pericardium derived from?

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Intra-embryonic coelm

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15
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What are the parietal and fibrous layers of the pericardium formed from?

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Somatic mesoderm

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16
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What is the visceral layer of serous pericardium derived from?

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Splanchnic mesoderm

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17
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What are the structures on the primitive heart tube from cranial to caudal end?

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  • Truncus arteriosus
  • Bulbus cordis
  • Ventricle
  • Atrium
  • Sinus venosus
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18
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What structures are found in the arterial end of the primitive heart tube?

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  • Truncus arteriosus
  • Bulbus cordis
  • Ventricle
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19
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What structures are found in the venous end of the primitive heart tube?

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  • Atrium

- Sinus venosus

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20
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How many horns does the sinus venosus have?

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2

Right and left

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21
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Where does each horn get blood from?

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  • Yolk sac via vitelline vein
  • Placenta via umbilical vein
  • Body of the embryo via the common cardinal vein
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22
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What does the truncus arteriosus continue cranially with?

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Aortic sac

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23
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What arises from the aortic sac?

A

Aortic arches

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24
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Where do the aortic arches terminate?

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Dorsal aorta

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25
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Which way does the primitive heart tube loop?

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Anti-clockwise

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26
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Which regions of the primitive heart tube grow fastest?

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  • Bulbus cordis

- Ventricle

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27
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What do the bulbus cordis and ventricle form?

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They form a u-shape known as the bulboventricular loop

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28
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How does the heart come to face the right?

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The heart tube loops to the left side

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29
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What is the most frequent positional abnormality of the heart?

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Dextrocardia

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30
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What other condition is dextrocardia associated with?

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Situs inversus

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31
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When does the partitioning of the primordial heart occur?

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Around the 27th to 37th day of embryonic development

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32
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What does the partitioning of the primordial heart involve?

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1 or 2 actively growing masses of tissue

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33
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What does endocardial cushion formation result in?

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Separation of the right atrioventricular opening from the left atrioventricular opening

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34
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What does septum formation result in?

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Separation of the right atrium from the left atrium and right ventricle from the left ventricle

35
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What are many cardiac malformations associated with?

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Defective formation of endocardial cushion and septum formation

36
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What can defective endocardial cushion and septum formation result in?

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  • Atrial septal defect

- Ventricular septal defect

37
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When does the partitioning of primordial atrium into left and right atria take place?

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Starts towards the end of the 4th week

38
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What develop during the portioning of the primordial atrium into left and right atria?

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  • Septum primum and foramen primum

- Septum secondum and foramen secundum

39
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What is the ostium primum?

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Opening between septum primum and endocardial cushion

40
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Where is the foramen secundum formed?

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At the upper end of septum primum

41
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Where is the septum secundum formed?

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On the right of the septum primum

42
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After formation what does the septum secundum do?

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It grows and overlaps the foramen secundum.

43
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Why is the septum secundum incomplete?

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Perforated by oval foramen

44
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What is the opening in the septum primum?

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Foramen secundum

45
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What is the opening in the septum secundum?

A

Foramen ovale

46
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What is the role of the oval foramen?

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  • Allows most of the blood to pass from the right atrium to the left atrium
  • Prevents the passage of blood in the opposite direction
47
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What normally happens to the oval foramen after birth?

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  • It normally closes

- Increased pulmonary blood flow and shift of pressure to the lift atrium

48
Q

What happens to the septum primum after birth?

A

It fuses with the septum secundum

49
Q

What is the oval fossa in the adult heart?

A

A remnant of foetal oval foramen

50
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What does non-closure of the oval foramen result in?

A

Atrial septal defect

51
Q

What are the 4 clinically significant types of ASD?

A
  • Foramen secundum defect
  • Endocardial cushion defect
  • Sinus venosus defect
  • Common atrium
52
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Who do atrial septal defects affect more often?

53
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What is the first stage in the partitioning of the primordial ventricle?

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Muscular ventricular septum forms. Opening is called intraventicular foramen

54
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What happens in the partitioning of the primordial ventricle after the muscular ventricular septum forms?

A

Aorticopulmonary septum rotates and fuses with muscular ventricular septum to form membranous interventricular septum, closing interventricular foramen

55
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What is the final stage in the partitioning of the primordial ventricle?

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Growth of endocardial cushions separates atria from venticles and contributes to both atrial septation (distally) and membranous portion of the interventricular septum (proximally)

56
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What happens during the 5th week of development?

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Partitioning of bulbus cordis and truncus arteriosus

57
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What must happen before the partitioning of the bulbus cordis and truncus arteriosus?

A

Active proliferation mesenchymal cells in the walls of the BC and TA

58
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What happens during the partitioning of BC and TA?

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  • Bulbur ridges and truncal ridges are formed
  • They undergo 180 degree spiralling resulting in the formation of aorticopulmonary septum
  • This septum divides BC and TA in to aorta and pulmonary trunk
59
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What causes the spiralling of the bulbur and truncal ridges?

A

Streaming of blood from the ventricles

60
Q

What is the most common type of congenital heart defect?

A

Ventricular septal defect

61
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Where do VSDs appear?

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Can appear in any part of the septum

62
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What is the outcome of most small VSDs?

A

Close spontaneously

63
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What is the most common type of VSD?

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Membranous

64
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Who do VSDs most commonly affect?

65
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Where are early pacemakers found?

A

Primordial atrium and then sinus venosus

66
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When does the SA node develop?

67
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Where is the location of the SA in and adult?

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High in the right atrium near the entrance of the SVC

68
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What do the AV node and bundle develop from?

A

Cells of AV canal and sinus venosus

69
Q

What is cot death/sudden infant death syndrome?

A

Abnormalities of conducting tissue

70
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What is the fate of the aortic sac?

A

Aortic arches

71
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What is the fate of the bulbus cordis?

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  • Right ventricle

- Parts of the outflow tracts

72
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What is the fate of the primitive ventricle?

A

Left ventricle

73
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What is the fate of the primitive atrium?

A

Parts of the right and left atria

74
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What is the fate of the sinus venosus?

A
  • Superior vena cava

- Right atrium

75
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What are the factors affecting the aetiology of congenital heart disease?

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  • Rubella infection in pregnancy
  • Maternal alcohol abuse
  • Maternal drug treatment and radiation
  • Genetic
  • Chromosomal
76
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What congenital heart diseases are more common in females?

A
  • Atrial septal defect

- Patent ductus arteriosus

77
Q

What type of defects can maternal alcohol abuse lead to?

A

Septal defects

78
Q

What is a common cause of cyanotic disease in newborn infants?

A

Transposition of great vessels

79
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What is transposition of great vessels associated with?

80
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What does transposition of great vessels permit?

A

Exchange of systemic and pulmonary circulation

81
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What are the 2 causes of transposition of great vessels?

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  • Failure of aorticopulmonary septum to take a spiral course

- Defective migration of neural crest cells

82
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What are the 4 cardiac defects that make up the teratology of fallot?

A
  • Pulmonary stenosis
  • Ventricular septal defect
  • Dextroposition of aorta
  • Right ventricular hypertrophy
83
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What is the cause of fallot?

A

Unequal division of the conus due to anterior displacement of aorticopulmonary septum

Systems: Cardiovascualar AB (42 decks)

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