1. FHC Cat Dissection The Cat’s Little Heart

2. Cut Away the Parietal Pericardium

3. Pulmonary Ligament Heart Diaphragm Pulmonary Ligament

4. The Right Atrium Right Atrium

5. The Right Ventricle Right Ventricle

6. Left Atrium

7. Left Ventricle

8. Left Coronary Artery

9. Remove The Heart From The Mediastinum Cut here!

10. Identify The Following Heart Structures: The Heart: A Ventral Aspect

11. Dorsal View of the Heart

12. Aorta - Dorsal View

13. Azygos Vein

14. Dorsal Pulmonary Veins

15. Brachiocephalic Artery

16. Left Atrium

17. Left Pulmonary Artery

18. Left Pulmonary Veins

19. Left Subclavian Artery

20. Left Ventricle Note: When you view The heart dorsally, left Is left and right is right!

21. Ligamentum Arteriosum

22. Postcava

23. Precava

24. Right Atrium

25. Right Pulmonary Artery

26. Right Pulmonary Veins

27. Right Ventricle

28. Please Cut The Heart in Half Place the heart in front of you. You are viewing the ventral surface. Begin your cut on the heart’s RIGHT side (your left) and continue the cut until you ALMOST reach the other side (like a submarine sandwich bun). Open the heart like you were looking at the back page of a book placed upside down in front of you.

29. The Interior of the Heart Should Look Like This:

30. Wash the Latex and Coagulated Blood from the Interior of the Heart Very Nicely Done!

31. Muscular Walls of the Left Ventricle

32. Right Atrium

33. Right Ventricle

34. Left Atrium

35. Left Ventricle

36. Papillary Muscle

37. Chordae Tendinae

38. Tricuspid Valve

39. Bicuspid Valve

40. Trabechulae Carnae