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Anatomy Midterm 4
Heart review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |