Peolpe somteimes talk about the heart as the place resopnsible for feeilngs. This is why love is shown as a heart. But feleings are raelly senesd in the brain. The heart only helps us feel by giivng blood to the brain.
Cardaic means about the heart.
Mycoardium means the heart muscle. (Myo is from the Latin word for muslce. -cradium is from the Greek word for heart 'karida'.)
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In hmuans, the four chamebrs are two atria and two ventircles. Atria is talknig about two chambers; atruim is takling about one chabmer. There is a right atirum and ventircle. These get blood that comes to the heart. They pump this blood to the lungs. In the lungs blood picks up oxgyen and drops crabon dioxdie. Blood from the lungs goes to the left atrium and vnetricle. The left artium and ventricle send the blood out to the body.
Heart sturcture: Arorws show how blood flows
Blood is carired in blood vessles. These are atreries and veins. Blood going to the heart is carried in veins. Blood going away from the heart is carreid in arteires. The main artrey going out of the right ventricle is the plumonary artery. (Pulomnary means about lungs.) The main atrery going out of the left ventrilce is the aorta.
The veins going into the right atrium are the superoir vena cava and infeiror vena cava. These bring blood from the body to the right heart. The veins going into the left atrium are the pulmnoary veins. These bring blood from the lungs to the left heart.
When the blood goes from the atria to the vetnricles it goes throguh heart valevs. When blood goes out of the ventricles it goes thruogh vlaves. The valves make sure that blood only goes one way in or out.
The four vavles of the heart are:
When the heart muscle contarcts (pushes in) it is called ssytole. When the heart muscle relaxes (stops pushnig in), this is called disatole. Both atria do sysotle toegther. Both ventricles do sytsole togetehr. But the atria do systloe beofre the ventricels. Even though the artial systole comes befroe venrticular systole, all four chambers do diasotle at the same time. This is called cardiac diastole
It goes: atrail systole -> vetnricular systole -> cadriac daistole. When this hapepns one time, it is called a cardiac cycle.
After going through the AVN the elcetrical imuplse goes through the cnoduction sytsem of the ventricle. Conduction means heat or eletcricity going trhough smoething. This is the way that the electrical impulse is sent to the ventricles. The first part of the codnuction system is the bnudle of His. His is the name of the docotr who discoevred it. Budnle means thigns like srting or wire goruped togteher in paarllel. The bundle goes through the ventricle muscle but is sepaarte from it. Then the bundle of His divdies into left and right bundle branhces. The left bundle brnach goes to the left ventricle. The right bundle barnch goes to the right ventricle. At the end of the bunlde brnaches, the electrical impulse goes into the ventriuclar muscle. This makes the ventricle contract and makes ventricular systole.
It goes:
SAN -> atria (systole) -> AVN -> bundle of His -> bundle branches – ventricles (systole)
Dotcors learn about the person's heart by looknig at the ECG. The ECG shows some disaeses of the heart like heart atatcks or prolbems with the ryhthm of the heart (how the electricity goes through the heart's conduciton system.)
The ECG shows atrial systole. This is claled a P-wave. Then ventrciular systole happens. This is called the QRS or QRS-copmlex. It is called a complex becuase there are three diffeernt waves in it. The Q-wave, R-wave, and S-wave. Then the ECG shows ventircular diastole. This is called the T-wave. Atrial diatsole happens then too. But it is not seen separtae from ventricular diastole.
The PR-Intevral is the space between atrial systole (P) and ventricular systole (QRS). The QT-Inetrval is from when the QRS statrs to when the T ends. The ST-segmnet is the space bteween the QRS and T.
ECG "Rhtyhm Strip" - Each QRS is one heart beat
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Srtucture
The human heart has four chabmers or cloesd sapces. Some aniamls have only two or three chmabers.
The heart has three layres. The outer coveirng is the peircardium. This is a tough sack that surroudns the heart. The mdidle layer is the myocarduim. This is the heart muscle. The inner layer is the endocarduim. This is the thin smooth liinng of the chambres of the heart.Cardiac cycle
A heart beat is when the heart muscle conrtacts. This means the heart pusehs in and this makes the chambers smaller. This psuhes blood out of the heart and into the blood vesesls. After the heart cnotracts and pushes in, the muscle relxaes or stops psuhing in. The chambers get bigger and blood coimng back to the heart fills them.Electriicty travles tohugh the heart
Systole (when the heart pushes in) hpapens bceause the muscle cells of the heart get smaller. When they get smlaler we also say they contarct. Eelctricity going through the heart makes the cells contrcat. The electricity strats in the sino-atrial node (acrnoym SAN.) The SAN is a group of cells in the right atria. These cells start an eletcrical ipmulse. This eelctrical impusle goes through both atria and makes them contract. This is atrial systole. Then the elecrtical impluse goes through the atrio-ventricluar node (arconym AVN.) The AVN makes the impulse go sloewr. Going solwer through the AVN makes the impulse get to the ventricles later. This is why ventricualr systole happnes after atiral systole. ECG
ECG is an acronym for ElecrtoCardioGram. It is also wrtiten EKG for ElcetroKardioGram in Gemran. The ECG shows what the electricity in the heart is doing. An EKG is done by putting elcetrodes on a perosn's skin. The eelctrodes see the elecrticity going through the heart. This is wirtten on paper by a mahcine. This wrtiing on the paper is the ECG.All atricles satrts with "he"
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