Location of the Heart
The side of the chest the heart should lie on.
What is the left side
The pericardium has this many layers
What is two
What is 3
How many chambers make up the heart
What is 4
How many valves (the main valves) make up the heart
What is 4
The degree angle the heart lies
What is 45 degrees
The pericardium protects the heart from what 2 things
What is infection and trauma
The 3 layers of the heart wall are
What is the endocardium, myocardium and epicardium
What chamber is connected to the pulmonary artery
What is the right ventricle
How many pulmonary veins are there
What is 4
The sac that the heart sits within
What is the pericardium
Name the layers of the pericardium
Fibrous and Serous
This layer of the heart wall is the thick muscular layer
What is the myocardium
What chamber has the thickest wall
What is the left ventricle
The 2 veins that drain into the right atrium are
What is the IVC and SVC
The apex of the heart is known to sit here compared to the base
What is inferiorly and anteriorly
This layer of the serous pericardium is also known as the epicardium of the heart
What is the visceral layer
The layer of the heart wall made of endothelial cells is
The endocardium
What separates the 2 atria
What is the interatrial septum.
What is the mitral or bicuspid valve
The two chambers that make up the superior border of the heart
What are the atria
This amount of serous fluid is located within the pericardium
What is 10-20 mL
Which layer of the heart is the main pumping mechanism
The myocardium
When the ventricles are in a relaxed state this is known as
What is diastole
What are the 3 leaflets of the aorta names
Right coronary cusp
left coronary cusp
non-coronary cusp