Heart (Interior View) Flashcards
Coronary Sinus
Drains the Myocardium
Right atrioventricular Valve
Tricupid valve (3 flaps/ cusps) Blood from the right atrium passes through this into the right ventricle
Pulmonary semilunar Valve
Venous blood is then propelled past this into the pulmonary trunk
Left atrioventricular vavle
bicuspid or Mitral (Two cusps)
Blood from left atrium passes through into the left ventricle
Aortic semilunar Valve
blood from the left ventricle passes through into the ascending aorta
Papillary Muscles
Nipple shaped
Found in each ventricle
connect to the cusps through chordae tendineae
These muscles contract and tug on the chordae tendineae in order to hold the valves CLOSED
Chordae Tendineae
Tough connective tissue strands
Tug on these CLOSING the valve
Murmur
Blood may flow back and forth across the cusps
Conduction system of the heart
Starts at the Sino-atrial Node Then to the atrioventiricular node Bundle of His Right and left Bundle Branches into the Purkinje Fibers causing ventricles to contract
Sino Atrial Node
S-A Node
wall of the right atrium
pacemaker of the heart
Initiates the heart rhythm
Atrioventricular Node
A-V Node
Lower part of the interatrial Septum, above the tricuspid valve
Atrioventricular Bundle of His
A-V node connects here
Runs within the interventricular septum
Purkinje Fibers
Depolarize the cardiac muscle cells, causing ventricles to contract
Fossa Ovalis
Wall of the right atrium
Remnant of Embryonic Foramen Ovale
His
A man’s name