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The heart is a muscular organ found in humans and other animals.This organ pumps blood through the blood vessels. [1] Heart and blood vessels together make the circulatory system. [2]
The mediastinum (from Medieval Latin: mediastinus, lit. 'midway'; [2] pl.: mediastina) is the central compartment of the thoracic cavity.Surrounded by loose connective tissue, it is a region that contains vital organs and structures within the thorax, namely the heart and its vessels, the esophagus, the trachea, the vagus, phrenic and cardiac nerves, the thoracic duct, the thymus and the lymph ...
Human anatomy (gr. ἀνατομία, "dissection", from ἀνά, "up", and τέμνειν, "cut") is primarily the scientific study of the morphology of the human body. [1]
In the blood supply of the heart, the right coronary artery (RCA) is an artery originating above the right cusp of the aortic valve, at the right aortic sinus in the heart. [1] [2] It travels down the right coronary sulcus, towards the crux of the heart.
The atrium (Latin: ātrium, lit. 'entry hall'; pl.: atria) is one of the two upper chambers in the heart that receives blood from the circulatory system.The blood in the atria is pumped into the heart ventricles through the atrioventricular mitral and tricuspid heart valves.
Female (left) and male (right) adult human bodies photographed in ventral (above) and dorsal (below) perspectives. Naturally-occurring pubic, body, and facial hair have been deliberately removed to show anatomy.
18091 Ensembl ENSG00000183072 ENSMUSG00000015579 UniProt P52952 P42582 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_004387 NM_001166175 NM_001166176 NM_008700 RefSeq (protein) NP_001159647 NP_001159648 NP_004378 NP_032726 Location (UCSC) Chr 5: 173.23 – 173.24 Mb Chr 17: 27.06 – 27.06 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse Homeobox protein Nkx-2.5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NKX2 ...
Standard anatomical terms of location are used to describe unambiguously the anatomy of animals, including humans.The terms, typically derived from Latin or Greek roots, describe something in its standard anatomical position.