GameChanger Academy
Tutors
Courses
CEE
About
Anatomy
1. Mediastinum
2. The Heart Development
3. Pericardium
4. Features of the Heart
5. Arterial Supply of Heart
6. Venous Drainage of the Heart
7. Conducting System of Heart
8. Nervous System of Heart
9. Foetal Circulation and Changes at Birth
10. Microscopic Structure of Heart
11. Arteries
12. Arch of Aorta
13. Descending Thoracic Artery
14. Abdominal Aorta
15. Subclavian Artery
16. Axiallary Artery
17. Internal Thoracic Artery
18. Brachial Artery
19. Radial Artery
20. Ulnar Artery
21. Palmar Arches
22. External Iliac Artery
23. Internal Iliac Artery
24. Femoral Artery
25. Popliteal Artery
26. Posterior Tibial Artery
27. Anterior Tibial Artery
28. Dorsalis Pedia Artery
29. Common Carotid Artery
30. External Carotid Artery
31. Internal Carotid Artery
32. Veins
33. Internal Jugular Vein
34. External Jugular Vein
35. Superior Venacava
36. Inferior Venacava
37. Brachiocephali vein
38. Subclavian vein
39. Axillary vein
40. Cephalic vein
41. Basilic vein
42. Azygous vein
43. Hemiazyous vein
44. Accessory Hemiazyoug Vein
45. Internal Hemiazygous Vein
46. Internal Iliac Vein
47. Femoral Vein
48. Popliteal Vein
49. Long Saphenous Vein
50. Small or Short Saphenous Vein
51. Hepato-portal System
52. Lymphatic System
53. Spleen
54. Thymus
55. Thoracic duct
56
Pharmacology
56. Congestive Heart Failure
57. Therapy of Arrhythmiasis
58. Angina pectoris
59. Therapy of Hypertension
60. Therapy of Shock
61. Haemostatic Agents
62. Therapy of Thromboembolic Disorder
63. Thrombolytic or Fibrinolytics
64. Antifibrinolytics
65. Antiplatelet Drugs
66. Therapy of Iron Deficiency Anemia
67. Therapy of Megaloblastic Anaemia
68. Hypolipidemic Drugs and Plasma Expanders
69
Physiology
69. Properties of Myocardial Cells
70. Heart - A Mechanical Pump
71. Cardiac Cycle
72. Electrocardiogram (ECG)
73. Cardiac Output (CO)
74. Haemodynamics of Circulation
75. Heart Sounds
76. Arterial Pulse
77. Blood pressure
78. Regional circulation
79. Cardiovascular chanes during exercise
80. Edema Dropsy of fluid retention
81. Shock
82. Hematology
83
Pathology
83. Anaemia
84. Hypertension
85. Hypertensive Heart Disease
86. Ischemic Heart Disease
87. Angina pectoris
88. Myocardial infarction
89. Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD)
90. Acute Pericarditis
91. Myocarditis
92. Infective Endocarditis (IE)
93. Congenital Heart Disease
94. Cardiomyopathies
95. Arteriosclerosis
96. Atherosclerosis
97. Inflammatory Disease of Blood Vessels
98. Aneurysms and Dissection
99. Congestive Heart Failure
100. Iron Deficiency Anaemia
101. Megaloblastic anaemia
102. Pancytopenia
103. Leucocytosis and Leucopenia
104. Aplastic anaemia
105. Haemolytic anaemia
106. Hereditary Spherocytosis
107. Haemoglobinipathies
108. Thalassemia syndrome
109. Sickle Cell Disease
110. Leukaemia
111. Leukemoid reaction
112. Lymphadenitits
113. Hodgkin lymphoma
114. Non-hodgkin lymphoma
115. Myeloproliferative disorders
116. Myelofibrosis
117. Multiple myeloma
118. Bleeding disorders
119. Coagulation disorders
120. any
121. Blood grouping
122
Microbiology
122. Introduction of Blood borne infections
123. Infective Endocarditis
124. Brucella
125. Rickettsiae
126. Leishmania donovani
127. Plasmodium
128. Wuchereria bancrofti
129
Biochemistry
129. Metabolism in Blood Cells
130. Iron metabolism
131. Haemoglobin
132. Lipoprotein metabolism
133. Biochemical aspect of MI
134
Anatomy
4. Features of the Heart
Edit
1.
Name the openings in the right atrium.
[
2062,
2056
]
➤
2.
Interior of right ventricle development with congenital anomalies.
[
2074
]
➤
3.
Explain the surfaces and borders of heart. Add a note on surface marking of auscultatory areas of heart.
(4)
[
2075
]
➤
4.
Describe the internal feature of right atrium.
[
2076
]
➤
5.
Describe the interior of right ventricle of heart, its source of development and any two congenital anomalies related to right ventricle.
[
2077
]
➤
PARTS
◉
name:
atrium
◉
parts:
■
name:
Right atrium
■
about:
■
parts:
⟣
name:
Right atrioventricular orifice
⟣
valve:
➢
name:
Tricuspid valve
➢
function:
Maintains unidirectional flow of blood
⟣
other_name:
Tricuspid orifice
■
function:
Receives venous blood from the whole body
Pumps it to the right ventricle through the right atrioventricular or tricuspid opening.
■
position:
■
tributaries:
●
everytime:
Superior venacava
Inferior venacava
Coronary sinus
Anterior cardiac veins
Venae cordis minimae (Thebesian veins)
●
sometimes:
Right marginal vein
■
external_features:
●
lower_end:
Receives inferior venacava
●
upper_end:
Receives superior venacava
➢
name:
Right auricle
➢
about:
⬦
covers:
Root of the Ascending aorta
⬦
margin:
○
shape:
notched
⬦
interior:
○
shape:
Sponge-like
○
function:
Prevents free flow of blood
⬦
overlaps:
Infundibulum of the right ventricle
➢
name:
Sulcus terminalis
➢
feature:
Shallow vertical groove
➢
passage:
Superior venacava to the inferior venacava
➢
location:
Right border of the atrium
➢
upper_part:
⬦
name:
Sinuatrial(SA) node
⬦
function:
Pacemaker of the heart
➢
produced_by:
⬦
name:
Crista terminalis
⬦
feature:
Internal muscular ridge
■
internal_features:
●
parts:
➢
name:
Smooth posterior part
➢
other_name:
Sinus venarum
➢
tributaries:
○
name:
Superior vena cava
○
name:
Inferior vena cava
○
name:
Coronary sinus
○
name:
Venae cordis minimae
○
about:
It is numerous small veins present in the walls of all the four chambers.
They open into the right atrium through small foramina.
➢
derived_from:
Right horn of the sinus venosus
➢
name:
Rough anterior part
➢
parts:
○
name:
Musculi pectinati
○
feature:
transverse muscular ridge
➢
other_name:
Pectinate part
➢
derived_from:
Primitive atrial chamber
➢
name:
Interatrial septum
➢
parts:
○
name:
Fossa ovalis
○
shape:
Shallow saucer-shaped depression
○
margin:
○
name:
Annulus ovalis
○
distinct:
Above and sides of the fossa ovalis
○
deficient:
Inferiorly
○
other_name:
Limbus fossa ovalis
○
represents:
Lower free edge of the septum secundum
○
anterior_edge:
Continuous with the left end of the valve of the inferior vena cava
○
location:
Lower part
○
remains_of:
○
name:
Foramen ovale
○
feature:
Small slit-like valvular opening
○
location:
Upper part of the fossa and the limbus
○
presence:
○
normally:
Occluded after birth
○
sometimes:
Persist
○
represents:
Site of the embryonic septum primum
➢
derived_from:
Septum primum and Septum secundum
■
name:
Left atrium
■
about:
■
function:
■
position:
■
tributaries:
■
external_features:
■
internal_features:
◉
name:
ventricle
◉
parts:
■
name:
Right ventricle
■
about:
■
function:
■
position:
■
tributaries:
■
external_features:
■
internal_features:
■
name:
Left ventricle
■
about:
■
function:
■
position:
■
tributaries:
■
external_features:
■
internal_features:
INTRODUCTION
shape
conical
weight
male
300 g
female
250 g
function
pump blood to various parts of the body to meet their nutritive requirement
location
middle mediastinum
dimension
12 x 9 cm
placement
obliquely behind the body of the sternum and adjoining parts of the costal cartilages
1/3 to the right of the median plane
2/3 to the left of the median plane
definition
The heart is a conical hollow muscular organ situated in the middle mediastinum
greek_name
value
cardia
adjective
cardiac
latin_name
value
cor
adjective
coronary
enclosed_within
pericardium
direction_of_blood_flow
from atria to ventricles
downwards, forwards and to the left
EXTERNAL_FEATURES
parts
◈
name:
Grooves
◈
about:
◈
parts:
●
name:
Atrioventricular groove
●
about:
On the surface of heart, atria and ventricles are separated by Atrioventricular groove.
●
parts:
➢
name:
Anterior atrioventricular groove
➢
name:
Posterior atrioventricular groove
➢
name:
Right atrioventricular groove
➢
shape:
Almost vertical
➢
contents:
Right Coronary artery
Small cardiac vein
➢
function:
Separates right atrium from the right ventricle
●
other_name:
Coronary sulcus
●
name:
Interatrial groove
●
about:
On the surface of heart, Atria are separated from each other by an Interatrial groove.
●
name:
Interventricular groove
●
about:
On the surface of heart, Ventricles are separated from each other by Interventricular groove.
●
parts:
➢
name:
Anterior interventricular groove
➢
name:
Posterior interventricular groove
◈
other_name:
Sulcus
◈
name:
Apex
◈
location:
Left 5th intercostal space
9 cm lateral to the midsternal line
Just medial to the midclavicular line
◈
formed_by:
Entirely by left ventricle
◈
orientation:
Downwards, forwards and to the left
◈
overlapped_by:
Anterior border of the left lung
◈
clinical_significance:
Pulsations is seen and felt over this region in living subject
◈
name:
Base
◈
location:
■
erect_posture:
T4 to T7
■
lying_posture:
T5 to T8
◈
relation:
Openings of 4 pulmonary veins which open into the left atrium
Openings of Superior and Inferior venacava which open into the right atrium
◈
formed_by:
2/3 by left atrium
1/3 by right atrium
◈
other_name:
Posterior surface
◈
separation_from_vertebral_column_by:
pericardium
right pulmonary veins
oesophagus
aorta
◈
name:
Surfaces
◈
parts:
●
name:
Anterior/ Sternocostal surface
●
formed_by:
⟣
parts:
⬦
name:
Covered area
⬦
covered_by:
Lungs
⬦
name:
Uncovered area
⬦
clinically_referred:
Area of superficial cardiac dullness
⬦
clinical_significance:
Dull on percussion
⟣
mainly_by:
Right atrium
Right ventricle
⟣
partly_by:
Left ventricle
Left auricle
⟣
covered_by:
Aorta
Pulmonary trunk
Lungs
●
name:
Inferior surface
●
rests_on:
Central tendon of the diaphragm
●
formed_by:
left 2/3 by left ventricle
right 1/3 by right ventricle
●
other_name:
Diaphragmatic surface
●
orientation:
downwards
slightly backwards
●
traversed_by:
Posterior interventricular groove
●
name:
Left lateral surface
●
relation:
Upper part crossed by the coronary sulcus
Left phrenic nerve
Left pericardiacophrenic vessels
Pericardium
●
formed_by:
mainly by left ventricle
upper end by left auricle
◈
name:
Borders
◈
parts:
●
name:
Upper border
●
shape:
Oblique
●
formed_by:
2 atria
chiefly by left atrium
●
name:
Left border
●
shape:
Oblique
Curved
●
extends:
apex to left auricle
●
formed_by:
Mainly by left ventricle
Partly by left auricle
●
clinical_significance:
separates the anterior and left surfaces of the heart
●
name:
Right border
●
shape:
Almost vertical
●
extends:
Superior venacava to inferior vena cava
●
formed_by:
Right atrium
●
name:
Inferior border
●
shape:
Almost horizontal
●
extends:
Inferior venacava to apex
●
formed_by:
Right ventricle
Small part near the apex by left ventricle
◈
name:
Crux of the Heart
◈
description:
Meeting point of interatrial, atrioventricular and posterior interventricular grooves
chambers
atrium
2
number
4
ventricles
2
features
Atria lie above and behind the ventricles.
On the surface of heart, atria and ventricles are separated by Atriventricular groove.
On the surface of heart, Atria are separated from each other by an Interatrial groove.
On the surface of heart, Ventricles are separated from each other by Interventricular groove.
Question Answers