External and Internal Features Of The Heart - Plastic Model

Learning objectives in the video:
• Description of the borders, surfaces, apex & base of the heart
• Description of the parts of the heart:
- right atrium: right auricle, openings of the superior and inferior venae cavae & coronary sinus. Valves of the inferior vena cava and coronary sinus, Interatrial septum, fossa ovalis, limbus, musculi pectinati
-right ventricle: right AV valve (tricuspid), cusps, chordae tendinae, papillary muscles, trabecula carnae, infundibulum, pulmonary valve
-left atrium: left auricle, pulmonary vein orifices
-left ventricle: left AV valve (mitral), chordae tendineae, papillary muscles, trabecula carnae, aortic vestibule, aortic valve, interventricular septum (membranous and muscular parts)
• Description of the relative thickness of the wall of the chambers.
• Description of the shape of the right ventricle in comparison to the left.

Presented and edited by Dr.Akram Jaffar (PhD). Filmed by Mr Nasser Zahra (Lab technician).