ANAT2111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pulmonary Vein, Elastic Fiber, Aorta

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Vena cava deo2 enter pulmonary arteries to the lungs to be reo2. reo2 pumped into heart via pulmonary vein pumped out from aorta to the body. deo2 blue, reo2 red. Artery - stronger and more elastic - has to push blood out of the heart. Artery simple squamous, smooth muscle is larger and thick. Vein contain valves, not as elastic as arteries, larger lumen + thicker tunica externa. Provide o2 to tissues receive co2 in return . Artery from the heart arterioles capillaries venules veins to heart. 2 circuits = pulmonary (right) + systemic (left) Circulatory = heart + vessels + blood. Propels blood through double loop by the pulmonary & systemic circuits. Is a central compartment of the thoracic cavity. Heart topography (2) - relations of the heart. Apex = antero-inferiorly + left (formed by left ventricle). Base = opposite the apex + posteriorly & up (formed by left atrium).

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