Heart and Great Vessels

By Dr. Zyad Tariq

 QUIZ
1. Enumerate the anterior group of muscles
that attached to the shoulder ?

2. Write short assay about deltoid muscle?

 ANATOMY OF THE HEART
• The heart is located between the lungs behind
the sternum and above the diaphragm. It is
surrounded by a sac called the pericardium.
It’s only about the size of a fist, It’s a hollow,
muscular organ.
 THE HEART CHAMBERS
The heart consists of four chambers, two on the
top and two on the bottom.
The two bottom chambers are called the right
ventricle and the left ventricle. They pump
blood out of the heart. A wall called the
interventricular septum separates them.
The two top chambers are the right atrium and
the left atrium, They receive the blood entering
the heart. The wall that separates them is called
the interatrial septum.
 valves
1. Tricuspid valve: between the Right Atrium
and the Right Ventricle.
2. Pulmonary valve: between the Right Ventricle
and the Pulmonary artery.
3. Mitral valve: between the Left Atrium and the
Left Ventricle.
4. Aortic valve: between the Left Ventricle and
the Aorta.
 Great vessels
1. Superior and inferior vena cava: 2 vein's,
drain the blood from the whole body to the
right atrium.
2. Pulmonary artery : take the deoxygenated
blood from the right ventricle to the 2 lungs.
3. Pulmonary veins: take the oxygenated blood
from the lungs to the left atrium.
4. Aorta : take the blood from the left ventricle
to the whole body.
 Blood supply of the heart
• The blood supply of the heart is mainly by 2
arteries (right coronary artery and left
coronary artery).
• These 2 arteries comes directly from the aorta
and gives branches along over the heart.