The Heart Flashcards
What does the fiberous pericardium do?
secured heart in place
What are the two layers of the serous pericardium?
Viseral and parietal pericardiums
What layer of the serous pericardium connects with the thoracic cavity?
Parietal pericardium
What is the layer of the serious pericardium which touches the heart?
Viseral pericardium
What is the myocardium?
Middle and thickest layer composed of cardiac muscle and reenforced by dense irregular connective tissue
What is endocardium?
Inner lining of the heart, covers heart valves and is contiguous with the inner lining of vessels
What circuit does the right side of the heart pump to?
pulmonary
What circuit does the left side of the heart pump to?
systemic circuit
What is the flow of blood in the right side of the heart?
IVC/SVC -> Right atrium ->AV valve ->Right ventricle -> pulmonary semilunar valve -> pulmonary trunk ->Right and left pulmonary arteries -> lungs
What is the flow of blood on the left side of the heart?
Lungs -> Left/right pulmonary veins -> Left atrium -> Left AV Valve -> Left ventricle -> Aortic Semilunar valve -> Aorta -> systemic circuit
What is the foramen ovale?
hole between intraatrial septum during fetal life
What is the fossa Ovalis?
Foramen ovale hole once it closes after birth and is a small depression in intratrial septum
What is the Ductus Arteriosus?
Shunt between pulmonary artery and aorta during fetal development
Ligaments arteriousum is?
What the ductus Arteriosus is called after it closes post birth
What are 5 characteristics of cardiac muscle?
Intercalated disks Striated uninucleated branch shaped involuntary control
What is the apex of the heart?
pointed inferior end of heart
What is the base of the heart?
where the great vessels emerge
How does blood flow?
From an area of higher pressure to an area of low pressue
What are the 3 layers of the heart?
Epicardium
Myocardium
Endocardium
What allows more blood to flow through heart?
Auricles
What is located on the posterior side of heart and collects deoxygenated blood from the various cardiac veins?
The coronary sinus
What branch off the aorta and supple blood to the heart?
The right and left coronary arteries
What does deoxygenated blood do in the coronary sinus?
dumps directly into the left atrium from the coronary sinus
What takes blood AWAY from the heart?
Artieries
Sulcus is a?
shallow groove in tissue
What is a fissure?
A deep groove
What anchors the atrioventricular valves to papillary muscles?
Hint-Called heart strings
chordae tendinae
The heart makes two distinct sounds called S1 and S2, what is occurring during these phases?
S1-AV valves closing
S2-Semilunar valves closing
The ventricles are contracting during which stage?
S1
The ventricles are relaxing during which stage?
S2
What does systole mean?
contracting
What does diastole mean?
relaxing
What are the functions of the heart?
Generating blood pressure, Routing blood, Regulating blood supply