Development of the Heart
This text discusses embryological development of heart structures; the five regions of the fetal heart; and fetal heart structures to adult counterparts.
Topics
- afterload
- anastomosis
- anterior cardiac veins
- anterior interventricular artery
- anterior interventricular sulcus
- aortic valve
- artificial pacemaker
- atrial reflex
- atrioventricular
- AV node
- atrioventricular bundle
- atrioventricular bundle branches
- atrioventricular septum
- atrioventricular valves
- atrium
- auricle
- autonomic tone
- autorhythmicity
- Bachmann’s bundle
- Bainbridge reflex
- baroreceptor reflex
- bicuspid valve
- bulbus cordis
- bundle of His
- cardiac cycle
- cardiac notch
- cardiac output
- CO
- cardiac plexus
- cardiac reflexes
- cardiac reserve
- cardiac skeleton
- cardiogenic area
- cardiogenic cords
- cardiomyocyte
- chordae tendineae
- circumflex artery
- coronary arteries
- coronary sinus
- coronary sulcus
- coronary veins
- diastole
- ejection fraction
- electrocardiogram
- ECG
- end diastolic volume
- EDV
- end systolic volume
- ESV
- endocardial tubes
- endocardium
- endothelium
- epicardial coronary arteries
- epicardium
- filling time
- foramen ovale
- fossa ovalis
- Frank-Starling mechanism
- great cardiac vein
- heart block
- heart bulge
- heart rate
- HR
- heart sounds
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- inferior vena cava
- interatrial band
- interatrial septum
- intercalated disc
- internodal pathways
- interventricular septum
- isovolumic contraction
- isovolumic ventricular relaxation phase
- left atrioventricular valve
- marginal arteries
- mesoderm
- mesothelium
- middle cardiac vein
- mitral valve
- moderator band
- murmur
- myocardial conducting cells
- myocardial contractile cells
- myocardium
- negative inotropic factors
- P wave
- pacemaker
- papillary muscle
- pectinate muscles
- pericardial cavity
- pericardial sac
- pericardium
- positive inotropic factors
- posterior cardiac vein
- posterior interventricular artery
- posterior interventricular sulcus
- preload
- prepotential depolarization
- primitive atrium
- primitive heart tube
- primitive ventricle
- pulmonary arteries
- pulmonary capillaries
- pulmonary circuit
- pulmonary trunk
- pulmonary valve
- pulmonary veins
- Purkinje fibers
- QRS complex
- right atrioventricular valve
- semilunar valves
- septum
- septum primum
- sinoatrial
- SA node
- sinus rhythm
- sinus venosus
- small cardiac vein
- spontaneous depolarization
- stroke volume
- SV
- sulcus
- superior vena cava
- systemic circuit
- systole
- T wave
- target heart rate
- trabeculae carneae
- tricuspid valve
- truncus arteriosus
- valve
- ventricle
- ventricular ejection phase
- cardiogenic cord
- endocardial tube
- heart development