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| Heart |
| Morphology |
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Heart
is the contractile organ which enables the blood circulation,
and plays an essential part in the setting of its debt and adaptation
to physiological variations, and especially to the effort. Heart
lining are essentially made of a muscle, the myocard. There
are four cardiac cavities; they are separated by pairs by a
longitudinal partition which divide our heart in a left hand
side (LHS) and a right hand side (RHS) parts. The RHS heart
contains blood with a poor oxygen rate, rich in carbonic gas.
It ensures the pulmonary circulation. The LHS heart contains
blood rich in oxygen; it pulses it in all the tissues, through
the arteries. Each side of the heart is composed of an auricle
and a ventricle. Auricles receive blood which arrives to the
heart through veins. To the right auricle arrive the superior
and inferior cave veins; they bring back blood which is poor
in oxygen from all the organs but the lungs. In the left auricle
come, out of the lungs, four pulmonary veins which carry oxygenized
blood.
Blood is then directed into the ventricle which empties into
a single, wide artery. Out of the RHS ventricle comes the pulmonary
artery. It divides into two branches, right and left, which
ramify into the corresponding lung. It carries blood which is
poorly oxygenized. Out of the LHS ventricle comes the aorta.
The atrial-ventricular valves play a double role : On the first
hand, they channel the blood out of the auricle towards the
ventricle; on the other hand, they prevent, while contraction,
or ventricular systole, the ebb flow from the ventricle towards
the auricle. One may notice the RHS atrial-ventricular, or triscupid
one (left picture) and the LHS atrial-ventricular valve, or
mitral one. Each valve is moored to the lining of the corresponding
ventricle by fleshy columns, and fibrous ropes. The sigmoid
valves of the aorta and the pulmonary artery prevent as well
the ebb-flowing of the flood towards the ventricle while its
filling, the ventricular diastole. |
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