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Anatomy Midterm 4
Heart review
Question | Answer |
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superior vena cava | brings venous blood to right atrium from upper body |
ascending aorta | contains blood being pumped by left ventricle to all systems of body |
right coronary artery | leaves base of aorta to right of pulmonary trunk and lies in fat filled coronary sulcus as it passes to posterior heart |
right auricle | ear like flap of atrium |
inferior vena cava | enters heart just after passing through diaphragm |
ligamemtum arteriosum | remnant of embryonic vessel |
pulmonary trunk | blood being pumped by right ventricle to lungs for fresh supply of oxygen |
left coronary artery | leaves base of aorta and turns to coronary sulcus |
coronary sulcus | depression between atria and ventricles |
circumflex artery | continuation of left coronary artery to posterior heart in the coronary sulcus |
anterior interventricular artery | lies in fat filled anterior interventricular sulcus and a abranch of left coronary artery |
anterior interventricular sulcus | depression over interventricular septum that supplies blood to both ventricles |
great cardiac vein | lies in anterior interventricular sulcus beside artery. contiues by turning to lie in coronary sulcus with circumflex artery and terminates on posterior heart |
left auricle | ear like flap of left atrium |
pulmonary veins | take oxygenated blood to left atrium |
coronary sinus | termination of great cardiac vein. it lies in coronary sulcus and serves as ressevoir for venous blood |
posterior interventricular artery | lies in posterior interventricular sulcus and continues the right coronary artery |