Week 6 Lecture ppt Flashcards
The heart is composed of what:
The heart is composed of two conjoined pumps moving blood through two separate circulatory systems in sequence
What do the two conjoined pumps of the heart do?
- one pump supplies blood to the lungs,
- the second pump delivers blood to the rest of the body.
What do structures of the right side or right heart do?
Structures on the right side, or right heart, pump blood through the lungs.
What are the two major divisions of the heart?
- Pulmonary circulation
- Systemic circulation
System that pumps blood through lungs
This system is termed the pulmonary circulation
What do structures of the left side or left heart do?
The left side, or left heart, sends blood throughout the systemic circulation
System that pumps blood throughout all the body except the lungs
systemic circulation
Arteries
carry blood from the heart to all parts of the body,
What do arteries branch into
they branch into arterioles and even smaller vessels, ultimately becoming a fine meshwork of capillaries.
What allows the closest contact and exchange between the blood and the interstitial space?
Capillaries
What is the order of what things blood flows through?
Arteries carry blood from heart to all parts of body
Arteries branch into arterioles and even smaller vessels, ultimately becoming capillaries
Venules and then veins carry blood from capillaries back to the heart.
So….
Arteries–> arterioles–>capillaries–> venules–> veins
What is the distribution of blood in the circulatory system?
9% is in the pulmonary circulation,
7% is in the heart, and
84% is in the systemic circulation.
What are the three layers of the heart wall?
- epicardium
- myocardium
- endocardium
What are the three layers of the heart wall enclosed in?
Are enclosed in a double walled membranous sac- the Pericardium
The pericardium sac has three main functions:
- it prevents displacement of the heart during gravitational acceleration or deceleration,
- it serves as a physical barrier to protect the heart against infection and inflammation coming from the lungs and pleural space, and
- it contains pain receptors and mechanoreceptors that can cause reflex changes in blood pressure and heart rate.
Epicardium
The smoothness of outer layer of the heart
Minimizes friction between the heart wall and the pericardial sac
What is the thickest layer of the heart wall
the myocardium
The myocardium is composed of
The myocardium, is composed of cardiac muscle and is anchored to the heart’s fibrous skeleton.
Cardiomyocytes,
The heart muscle cells
What do the cardiomyocytes do?
The heart muscle cells, cardiomyocytes, provide the contractile force needed for blood to flow through the heart and into the pulmonary and systemic circulations.
Endocardium
The internal lining of the myocardium,
What is the endocardium composed of:
The endocardium, is composed of connective tissue and squamous cells
How does the right heart receive venous blood?
The right heart receives venous blood from the systemic circulation through the superior and inferior venae cavae, which join and then enter the right atrium.
What happens after the blood enters the right atrium?
Blood goes from RA to Right Ventricle.
Blood leaving the right ventricle enters the pulmonary circulation through the pulmonary artery, which divides into right and left branches to transport deoxygenated blood from the right heart to the lungs.