ligamentumarteriosum | | blood vessel; accepts blood from left ventricle |
tricuspid | | valve at entrance to pulmonary trunk |
rightatrium | | number of cusps in mitral valve |
inferiorvenacava | | also called septomarginal band |
leftventricle | | number of cusps in each semilunar valve |
two | | heart chamber; pumps blood to lungs |
chordaetendineae | | first blood vessels to branch off aorta |
trabeculaecarneae | | flaps that look like dog ears on surface of heart |
auricles | | heart chamber; receives blood from body |
rightventricle | | name of right atrioventricular valve |
pulmonaryarteries | | left atrial ventricular valve; so named because of the number of its cusps |
moderatorband | | blood vessels; return blood to left atrium |
pulmonaryveins | | pulmonary trunk bifurcates into these |
pulmonarysemilunar | | tic shaped muscles in ventricles |
coronaryarteries | | pitted |
leftatrium | | heart chamber with thickest walls |
base | | heart chamber; receives blood from lungs |
bicuspid | | inferior tip of heart; points toward left hip |
coronarysinus | | fetal structure; allows blood to by-pass lungs |
superiorvenacava | | left atrial ventricular valve; so named because it resembles the hat of a church bishop |
pulmonarytrunk | | blood vessel; receives blood from right ventricle |
aorticsemilunar | | flat top of heart; points toward right shoulder |
papillarymuscles | | valve through which blood leaving the left ventricle passes |
aorta | | vein; returns blood from legs |
apex | | vein; returns blood from head |
ductusarteriosus | | vein that returns blood from heart wall to right atrium |
mitral | | remnant of ductus arteriosus |
three | | comb-like muscle in right atrium |
pectinate | | heart strings |