1. Heart Dissection Tutorial
The hearts have already been cut open and are wrapped in a damp paper towel in zip lock bags. There are 2 at your lab table.
Choose the period number on the bag for your specimen. The specimen should be returned the way you found it.
DO NOT THROW IT AWAY!!

2. Heart Dissection Tutorial
You will not need the dissecting tools today. Your only tool is a straw (explained later) – do not destroy the straws!
Do not remove any parts from the heart or tear it apart!

3. Heart Dissection Tutorial
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4. Heart Dissection Tutorial
As you go through this tutorial, make note of any parts you had trouble finding and bring this next week when we will look at the hearts again.

5. First determine the anterior and posterior sides of your sheep heart.
This is the anterior side. Note the PULMONARY ARTERY shown here with arrow. Find this on your heart.

6. Note the fat on the surface. 6

7. The red one is called the WIDOW MAKER. WHY?
Also note the blood vessels that are embedded in the external heart muscle. These are the coronary arteries and veins.
The red one is called the WIDOW MAKER. WHY? 7

8. These purplish structures are the auricles
These purplish structures are the auricles. They communicate with the atria chambers. 8

9. Your heart does not have all of the aorta attached
Your heart does not have all of the aorta attached. You are responsible for knowing these branches off the aorta shown in the yellow boxes.

10. Right side
Right side
Left side
Left side
Thicker wall
Thicker wall
When you have examined the outside of the heart, I will cut the heart in half as shown here. (hearts are already cut)

11. Right side
Right side
Left side
Left side
Thicker wall
Thicker wall
Examine your open heart. Try to keep in mind which is the anterior side vs. the posterior side. Note the difference in the thickness of the walls. The Left side has a thicker wall because it is the main pump having to move blood through the entire body.

12. Now open the heart as shown and work with either the posterior or anterior side (choose the side you can see these structures in the bes)>
Right atrium
Left atrium
Tricuspid valve
Bicuspid valve
Chordae tendinae
Right ventricle
Papillary muscle
Interventricular septum
Left ventricle

13. Now find all of these labeled parts. Note the Chordae Tendinae
Now find all of these labeled parts. Note the Chordae Tendinae. These are thread-like bands of fibrous tissue which attach on one end to the edges of the tricuspid and mitral valves of the heart and on the other end to the papillary muscles. the papillary muscles of the heart serve to limit the movements of the mitral and tricuspid valves. These muscles contract to tighten the chordae tendineae, which in turn prevent inversion of the valves.
Right atrium
Left atrium
Tricuspid valve
Bicuspid valve
Chordae tendinae
Right ventricle
Papillary muscle
Interventricular septum
Left ventricle

14. attached to tricuspid valve flap Papillary muscle
Pulmonary
valve
Aortic
valve
CLOSER LOOK AT CHORDAE TENDINEAE AND PAPILLARY MUSCLE.
Area of
cutaway
Mitral
valve
Tricuspid
valve
Chordae tendineae
attached to tricuspid valve flap
Papillary
muscle
Figure 18.8c

15. Now you are going to use your finger or the straw to trace a drop of blood through the heart naming all of the parts.

16. Now you are going to use your finger to trace a drop of blood through the heart naming all of the parts. Begin at the posterior side of the heart and find the inferior and superior vena cavae. Put your fingers through these and note that your finger enters the right artrium. If you have problems finding the vena cavae, stick your finger into the posterior right atrium chamber and find the vena cavae as it exits this chamber. There are 2 vena cavae – find both.

17. Now from the right atrium, find the tricuspid valve, and then the right ventricle .

18. You will not be able to see the pulmonary semilunar valve, but it is embedded in the the heart tissue and it is not exposed. To find the exit from the right ventricle, go to the front of the heart and place your finger into the right ventricle at an angle. See if you can exit from this area into the pulmonary artery which is number 18 on this specimen.

19. The blood exits the pulmonary artery, low in oxygen and now goes to lungs. From there it will drop of carbon dioxide and pick up oxygen. This oxygenated blood will now be channeled back to the heart via the pulmonary veins. See diagram below. The yellow arrows show the pulmonary artery.

20. If your are having trouble finding the pulmonary artery, turn your heart to the anterior side and stick your finger down the pulmonary artery and watch where it comes into the right ventricle. The pulmonary semilunar valve is hidden under the heart tissue. This is the only valve that you will not be able to see.

21. The blood has traveled to the lungs to pick up oxygen
The blood has traveled to the lungs to pick up oxygen. This oxygenated blood will now be channeled back to the heart via the pulmonary veins. The pulmonary veins are going to be seen as one hole in the posterior side of the heart entering the left atrium. See circled area.

22. Now from the left atrium, find the bicuspid valve (also called mitral), and then the left ventricle .

23. The blood goes from the left ventricle through the semilunar aortic valve and then into the aorta. The aorta distributes oxygenated blood to all parts of the body.
aorta
21 = aortic semilunar valve

24. After the blood travels to the body cells, the deoxygenated blood is carried by the vena cavae into the right atrium and we are back to where we started.
Now use your list to see if you can trace a drop of blood through the heart.
When you are finished, go to the heart review (next slides) and LEARN THE PARTS!!!

25. HEART ANATOMYREVIEW

26. Bicuspid or mitral valve
Name this specific valve circled in yellow.
Bicuspid or mitral valve

27. Name this chamber (yellow arrow).
Right ventricle

28. Name the chamber circled in yellow.
Left ventricle

29. Name this specific blood vessel highlighted in yellow.
Pulmonary artery

30. Name the specific blood vessel highlighted in yellow.
aorta

31. Interventricular septum
Name this specific part highlighted in yellow.
Interventricular septum

32. Aortic semilunar valve
Name the valve that would be in the area circled by yellow.
Aortic semilunar valve

33. Name the blood vessel circled in yellow.
Pulmonary artery

34. Pulmonary semilunar valve
After blood leaves the right ventricle, what valve does it pass through?
Pulmonary semilunar valve

35. What heart chamber does the vena cavae enter?

36. What blood vessel carries blood from the lungs to the heart?
Pulmonary vein

37. Pulmonary semilunar valve
What valve leads into the pulmonary artery?
Pulmonary semilunar valve

38. Name this string-like structure (pink arrow). .
Chordae tendinae

39. inferior and superior vena cavae
right atrium
tricuspid valve
right ventricle
pulmonary semilunar valve
pulmonary artery
lungs
pulmonary veins
left atrium
bicuspid valve
left ventricle
aortic semilunar valve
aorta
body

40. Name this bulging area (pink arrow).
Papillary muscle

41. Name the red blood vessels on surface of heart.
Coronary arteries

42. Name the blue blood vessels on surface of heart.
Coronary veins

43. Brachiocephalic artery
Name the specific vessel # 1.
Brachiocephalic artery

44. Left common carotid artery
25. Name the specific vessel # 2.
Left common carotid artery

45. Left subclavian artery
Name the specific vessel # 3.
Left subclavian artery

46. Pulmonary semilunar valve
Name the specific valve # 19.
Pulmonary semilunar valve

47. THE END