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- fibrous covering
- includes inner parietal serous pericardium, middle fibrous pericardium, and outer pericardial mediastinal pleura |
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- Between parietal and visceral serous pericardium
- contains pericardial fluid |
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| Visceral serous pericardium (epicardium) |
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- tightly adheres to heart
- continuous w/ parietal layer at base of heart |
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| Phrenicopericardial ligament |
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- continuation of fibrous pericardium to the sternum and diaphragm
- on ventral mediastinum
- Also contains fait |
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| - all spericardial structures together |
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| - where great vessels attach |
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| - point of the heart, faces ventral, caudal to the left lobe of teh lung |
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| - surface facing the left thoracic wall |
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| - faces right thoracic wall |
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- contains coronary vessles and fat
- around base of the heart between the atria and ventricles |
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| - Superficial separations of the ventricls |
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| Paraconal interventricular groove |
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- contains paraconal interventricualr branch of left coronary artery
- transverses auricular surface of the heart, starting at base
of pulmonary trunk and running by the conus arteriosus |
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| Subsinuosal interventricular groove |
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- contains terminal branch of the left coronary artery
- caudal aspect of atrial surface ventral to coronary sinus |
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- receives blood from systemic veins and most of the blood from the heart
- dorsocranial to the right ventricle
- two parts, the right auricle and sinus venarum |
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- non-auricle portion of right atrium
- 4 openings.. causal vena cava, coronary sinus, cranial vena cava, and atrioventricular orifice |
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- appendage of the right atrium
- contains interlacing muscular bands called pectinate muscles (lined w/ endocardium) |
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- returns blood supplied to the heart via left coronary artery
- dilated terminal end of great cardia vein, begins at paraconal interventricular groove |
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| right atrioventricular orifice |
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| - two main valves: parietal and septal cusps as well as subsidairy leaflets on each flap |
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- opposite of foramen ovale in left atrium.
- small sealed sinus where blood was shunted in the fetus |
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| - lines inside of heart compartment |
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| - finger like projections that attach valves to the papillary muscles |
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| - function to open and close valves |
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| - muscle irregularities in the ventricular walls |
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| trabecula spetomarginalis |
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(marginal band)
- muscular strand that extends across the lumen of the ventricle from the septal to parietal wall via a papillary muscle |
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- termination of the right ventricle that gives rise to the pulmonary trunk
- left craniodorsal aspect of the heart
- funnel shaped |
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- bifurcates into right and left pulmonary arteries
- one vein for each lung lobe, and one artery for each side |
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| - small fibrous nodule on free edge of each cusp... don't mistake for pathology |
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| - dorsocaudal part of base of heart dorsal to left ventricle |
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| - much more muscular than other compartments |
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- in fetus, shunted directly from right to left atrium
- fibrous connection between pulmonary trunk and aorta |
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| - returns blood supplied to the heart via the left coronary artery |
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