Final Exam Study Guide II Flashcards
List the blood flow from the cranial/caudal vena cava/great cardiac vein to the aorta.
Cranial/Caudal Vena Cava/Great Cardiac Vein –> Right Atrium –> Right AV Valve –> Pulmonary Semilunar Valve –> Pulmonary Trunk –> Lungs –> Pulmonary Vein –> Left Atrium –> Left AV Valve –> Left Ventricle –> Aortic Semilunar Valve –> Aorta –> Body
What is pleura? What is peritoneum?
Pleura: Thoracic serous membrane
Peritoneum: Abdominal serous membrane
What is pleural space?
Potential space containing a few mL of fluid, keeps strong association with thoracic wall, provides frictionless surface for expansion of lungs.
Fibrous layers are always covered by pleura.
What are the layers that make up the pericardial sac?
Parietal mediastinal pleura (not technically part of pericardial sac, but inseparable)
Fibrous pericardium
Parietal serous pericardium
What is the pericardial cavity?
Visceral serous pericardium/epicardium
List the structures located within the mediastinum.
Thymus Trachea Principal bronchi Lobar bronchi Tracheobronchial lymph nodes Caudal mediastinal lymph nodes (bovine)
What is the plica vena cava?
Special fold of the right pleura through which the vena cava runs (between the diaphragm and the pericardium)
What is the phrenicopericardial ligament? What is it called in the large animal?
Continuation of the fibrous pericardium running between the diaphragm and the pericardial sac. Located in the ventral mediastinum.
Called the sternopericardial ligament in the LA. Attached the sternum and the pericardial sac.
Where does the right coronary artery go after branching off the ascending aorta?
Encircles the right side of the heart in the coronary groove and continues down the subsinuosal interventricular groove.
Where does the left coronary go after branching off the ascending aorta?
immediately terminates into 2 branches:
1) Circumflex Artery - extends caudally in the left part oft he coronary groove and supplies the subsinuosal interventricular branch.
2) Paraconal Interventricular Artery - obliquely crosses the auricular surface of the heart in the groove of the same name.
What branches off of the brachiocephalic trunk after it branches off of the aortic arch?
L Common Carotid Artery
R Common Carotid Artery
R Subclavian Artery –> R Axillary Artery
What are the branches off of the L/R Subclavian Arteries?
Vertebral Artery
Costocervical Trunk
Superficial Cervical Artery
Internal Thoracic Artery
Where do the dorsal and ventral intercostal arteries arise from and where do they go?
Dorsal Intercostal Arteries - branch off aorta between each rib
Ventral Intercostal Arteries - branch off of the internal thoracic artery
**They join together to form the intercostal artery
Where does the bronchoesophogeal artery originate and where does it go?
Leaves the 5th intercostal artery close to its origin and crosses the left face of the esophagus, which it supplies. It terminates shortly afterward in the bronchial arteries, which supply the lung.
Which arteries are the nutritional blood supply for the heart? For the lungs?
Heart: Coronary Arteries
Lungs: Bronchoesophageal Arteries
What is located within the carotid sheath?
Common Carotid Artery, Internal Jugular Vein, Vagosympathetic Trunk
Where does the right azygous vein go?
Runs cranially from the abdomen and goes into either the cranial vena cava or the right atrium directly.
What is the location of the heart in the canine, feline, equine and bovine?
Canine: 3rd-6th rib
Feline: 4th-7th rib
Equine: 2nd-6th rib
Bovine: 2nd-5th rib
What is the diaphragmatic line of pleural reflection?
Point at which peripheral portions of the diaphragm start to attach to the body wall.
What are the costodiaphragmatic recesses?
Spaces between the peripheral diaphragm and costal arch
Where is the cardiac notch located in the dog/horse? Why is it important?
Between 4th and 5th intercostal space. Direct access to the right/left ventricle. Very small in dog on L.
Horse - both sides 3-5 rib (slightly larger on L)
What is the crista terminalis?
Semilunar crest at the entrance to the right auricle from which pectinate muscles radiate into the auricle.
What is the sinus venarum (cavarum)?
Main chamber of the atrium (as opposed to the auricle)
What is the coronary sinus?
Just caudal to the opening of the caudal vena cava as it dumps into the right atrium. Where the great cardiac vein returns nutritional blood from the coronary arteries to the heart.