Gross Anatomy of Heart and Coronary Circulation

Question 1

What are the four chambers of the heart?

Answer 1

Right atrium
Left atrium
Right ventricle
Left ventricle

Question 2

State the five great vessels

Answer 2

Aorta
Inferior Vena Cava
Superior Vena Cava
Pulmonary Arteries
Pulmonary Veins

Question 3

What is the only artery carrying deoxygenated blood?

Answer 3

Pulmonary artery

Question 4

What is the only vein carrying oxygenated blood?

Answer 4

Pulmonary vein

Question 5

Where does the apex of the heart sit?

Answer 5

5th intercostal space, mid-clavicular line

Question 6

The serous pericardium is divided into two continual layers - what are they called?

Answer 6

Visceral pericardium

Parietal pericardium

Question 7

The visceral pericardium is also known as?

Answer 7

The epicardium

Question 8

The heart is comprised of three layers - what are they called?

Answer 8

Endocardium
Myocardium
Epicardium

Question 9

What are the two pericardial sinuses?

Answer 9

Transverse pericardial sinus

Oblique pericardial sinus

Question 10

What is an auricle?

Answer 10

The protrusion of the surface wall of each atrium

Question 11

Which major artery leaves the left ventricle and bifurcate into?

Answer 11

Pulmonary trunk

Bifurcates into left and right pulmonary artery

Question 12

Of the two, which are thicker walled - the ventricles or atria?

Answer 12

The ventricles

Question 13

The bpm of the Atria is?

Answer 13

60 bpm

Question 14

The bpm of the Ventricle is?

Answer 14

40 bpm

Question 15

Which ventricle is more thicker walled - right or left?

Answer 15

Left

Question 16

The right atrium receives blood from where?

Answer 16

Superior Vena Cava
Inferior Vena Cava
Coronary Sinus

Question 17

Which valve connects the Right Atria and Right Ventricle?

Answer 17

Tricuspid valve

Question 18

Which valve connects the Left Atria and the Left Ventricle?

Answer 18

Mitral / Bicuspid valve

Question 19

The chordae tendineae are controlled by..?

Answer 19

The papillary muscles

Question 20

What is the supposed function of the Trabeculae Carnae?

Answer 20

Preventing the sticking of ventricular walls together during systole

Question 21

Coronary arteries are the only arteries that fill during…?

Answer 21

Diastole

Question 22

Which arteries are the only ones that fill during diastole?

Answer 22

Coronary arteries

Question 23

What are the four branches of the right coronary artery?

Answer 23

• SAN branch
• AVN branch
• Right marginal branch
• Posterior interventricular branch

Question 24

What are the two branches of the left coronary artery?

Answer 24

• Circumflex

- Anterior interventricular branch

Question 25

What are the eight cardiac veins?

Answer 25

Coronary sinus
Anterior cardiac vein
Great cardiac vein
Middle cardiac vein
Small cardiac vein
Smallest cardiac vein
Left marginal vein
Left posterior ventricular vein