What is the name of surface of the heart closest to the head? - Answers Base
What is the name of the point of the heart at its caudal end? - Answers Apex
State the path of blood flow through the heart, starting with the vena cava - Answers Vena Cava -- Right
atrium -- right atrioventricular/tricuspid valve -- right ventricle (conus arteriosus) -- pulmonary seminar
valve -- pulmonary arteries -- pulmonary veins -- left atrium -- bicuspid valve/left atrioventricular valve --
left ventricle -- aortic semilunar -- aorta -- vena cava
What feature of the left ventricle distinguishes it from the right? - Answers Pronounced muscular
appearance of ventricle walls
What is the name of the ear-like appendages on the atria? - Answers Auricles
The opening of the right ventricle into the pulmonary trunk is called the... - Answers Conus Arteriosus
Large blood vessel that receives blood from the left ventricle - Answers Aorta
In early fetal life, this existed as a shunt between the pulmonary trunk and the aorta - Answers
Ligamentum Arteriosum
2 Blood Vessels that originate at the base of the aorta and supply blood the the heart itself - Answers
Coronary Artery
Muscular Ridges of the Auricles - Answers Muscle Pectinati
What structure separates the left and right atrium? What distinguishing feature does this structure
possess? - Answers Interatrial septum; oval shaped depression called the "fossa ovalis"
What valve is between the left atrium and left ventricle? - Answers bicuspid valve
What valve is between the right atrium and right ventricle? - Answers Tricuspid valve
How are valves anchored in the heart? - Answers Valves are anchored to papillary muscles along the
walls of the ventricles, and are connected by chordae tendinae to those muscles
What vein is responsible for draining blood from the myocardium? - Answers Great Cardiac Vein
This artery (1) is directed cranially from the arch of the aorta; it gives off a small artery (2) before
bifurcating into two larger arteries (3,4)? What are the arteries 1, 2, 3, 4? - Answers 1. Brachiocephalic
2. Mediastinal
3. Right common carotid
4. Right subclavian
, These arteries both branch from the arch of the aorta and run close by the trachea - Answers Right and
Left common carotid arteries
The right and left subclavian arteries change names based on their location. Moving laterally, how do
these names change (2 names)? - Answers Axillary, Brachial
Branch of the right subclavian that runs to the sternum, down the thorax, and to the abdomen -
Answers Internal Mammary
Branches off the aorta that supply blood to the bronchi, esophagus, and intercostal muscles - Answers
Bronchial, Esophageal, and Intercostal arteries
What "trunk" bifurcates from the subclavian arteries into the cervical arteries? - Answers Thyrocervical
trunk
What is the aorta called once it passes through the diaphragm? - Answers Abdominal Aorta
What are the three branches of the celiac trunk (1, 2, 3)? What organs do they supply (a, b, c)? -
Answers 1. Hepatic
2. Left Gastric
3. Splenic
a. Liver
b. Lesser curvature of the stomach
c. Spleen, pancreas, stomach
The gastroduodenal artery has three branches. What are they (1, 2, 3) and what organs do they supply
with blood (a, b, c)? - Answers 1. Pyloric
2. Right Gastroepiploic
3. Anterior pancreaticoduodenal
a. Pylorus
b. Greater curvature of stomach
c. Duodenum and Pancreas