Lab 1 Flashcards
Put these in order:
- Right atrium
- Left atrium
- Right ventricle
- Left ventricle
- Pulmonary valve
- Pulmonary arteries, veins, and capillaries
- Systemic Arteries, veins, and capillaries
- Tricuspid valve
- Bicuspid valve (AKA Mitral valve)
- Systemic arteries, veins, and capillaries
- Right atrium
- Tricuspid valve
- Right ventricle
- Pulmonary valve
- Pulmonary arteries, veins, and capillaries
- Left atrium
- Bicuspid valve (AKA Mitral valve)
- Left ventricle
What determines function?
Structure determines function
What determines physiology?
Anatomy determines physiology
What does the cardiovascular system do? (Three things)
- Exchanges nutrients and oxygen to tissues
- Removes waste from tissues
- Transports blood
Where is the heart?
- Barely left of your midline
- Inside your thoracic cavity
- Inside the mediastinum
- Inside the pericardial cavity
- Inside the mediastinum
- The heart sits on top of the diaphragm
The heart sits on top of what muscle?
The diaphragm
What does the heart look like roughly? What is it composed of?
- 4 chambers
- 4 valves
- Tubes (vessels) for blood
- Nerves
- Muscle
- Connective Tissue
- Including blood

What do capillaries do?
Capillaries exchange nutrients
What do arteries do?
Arteries (irrigate) like a hose
- Branch
- Supply blood away from the heart
- Not always oxygenated
What do veins do?
Veins (drain) like a stormdrain
- Merge
- Drain
- Remove blood form tissue toward the heart
- Sometimes oxygenated
Where is the systemic circulation?
Body Tissues
Systemic circulation carries oxygenated blood from the left ventricle, through the arteries, to the capillaries in the tissues of the body. From the tissue capillaries, the deoxygenated blood returns through a system of veins to the right atrium of the heart.
Identify three artery locations in the cardiovascular system:
- Betweem the heart (right) and pulmonaru circulation
- Betweem the heart (left) and arterial circulation
- Between the heart (left) and coronary circulation

Pulmonary refers to what organ?
The lungs!
What happens to the blood when it reaches the lungs?
It gets oxygenated
What is the pulmonary circulation important for?
- Oxygenation of blood, exchange of carbon dioxide CO2
- Maintenance of blood pressure: there is also an enzyme (ACE) important for endocrine blood pressure regulation
What is systemic circulation important for?
- Nutrient absorption, nutrient storage, oxygenation of tissue, removal of waste (e.g. urea, drugs, CO2) from tissue, maintenance of blood pressure (sensing)
What about coronary circulation? Does the blood inside the heart chambers provide nutrients and oxygen for heart wall tissue?
No, thats why we have the coronary and veins on the heart!
- It’s technically a part of the systemic circulation, but it operates differently
Lable the heart (anterior view)


Lable the heart (posterior view)


Label the heart with the following:
Carries Blood away - Arterial
- Pulmonary Trunk
- Pulmonary Arteries (1xLeft, 1xRight)
- Ascending Aorta
- Aortic Arch
- Descending Aorta
Carries Blood toward - venous
6. Superior vena cava (SVC)
- Inferior vena cava (IVC)
- Pulmonary veins (2xLeft, 2xRight)
Circle the Ligametum arteriosum


Lable the internal heart features


What forms the base of the heart?
The right and left atria form the base of the heart, and the base faces the right shoulder while the apex points to the left hip
What is a sulci and what are the three sulci? What do they depict of the heart?
- Sulci are grooves that externally mark the boundaries between the four heart chambers
- Coronary Sulcus: Deep sulcus that externall shows the separation of the atria and the ventricles
- Anterior interventricular sulcus and Posterier interventricular sulcus are shallow grooves that depict the surface boundaries between the two ventricles

What are the three great vessels of the heart that return oxygen-poor blood to the right atrium of the heart?
The superior vena cava, inferior vena cava, and coronary sinus






































