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The heart is a muscular organ situated in the mediastinum.It consists of four chambers, four valves, two main arteries (the coronary arteries), and the conduction system. The left and right sides of the heart have different functions: the right side receives de-oxygenated blood through the superior and inferior venae cavae and pumps blood to the lungs through the pulmonary artery, and the left ...
Anatomical terminology. [ edit on Wikidata] The heart is a muscular organ found in most animals. This organ pumps blood through the blood vessels of the circulatory system. [ 1 ] The pumped blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the body, while carrying metabolic waste such as carbon dioxide to the lungs. [ 2 ]
Frank H. Netter. Frank Henry Netter (25 April 1906 – 17 September 1991) was an American surgeon and medical illustrator. The first edition of his Atlas of Human Anatomy — his "personal Sistine Chapel " [ 1] — was published in 1989; he was a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine where he was first published in 1957.
Description. Diagram of the human heart (cropped).svg. Diagram of the human heart, created by Wapcaplet in Sodipodi. Cropped by Yaddah to remove white space (this cropping is not the same as Wapcaplet's original crop). English: Diagram of the human heart.
Feb. 29—Nine doctors at the New England Heart and Vascular Institute at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester are branching out on their own but will remain credentialed to work at the hospital.
Medical illustration. An illustration of the relevant neurovascular anatomy in anterior supraclavicular neurosurgical approach to the brachial plexus and subclavian vessels for thoracic outlet syndrome. Anatomical illustration of a dissection of the skull showing meninges. A 1909 illustration from Sobotta's Atlas and Text-book of Human Anatomy.
Heart development. Development of the human heart during the first five weeks (top), and the formation of the heart chambers (bottom) at four and eight weeks. In this figure, the blue and red colors represent blood inflow and outflow (not venous and arterial blood). Initially, all venous blood flows from the tail/atria to the ventricles/head, a ...
A physician may recommend cardiac imaging to support a diagnosis of a heart condition. Medical specialty professional organizations discourage the use of routine cardiac imaging during pre-operative assessment for patients about to undergo low or mid-risk non-cardiac surgery because the procedure carries risks and is unlikely to result in the change of a patient's management. [1]