Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy
Dissection of pericardium and heart in situ
Heart exposed within pericardial activity
Image #116-7
KEYWORDS: Heart, Left heart, Pericardial sac, Right heart.
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Dissection of pericardium and heart in situ
Heart exposed within pericardial activity
The anterior wall of the pericardial sac has been incised and the cut edges have been reflected. The epicardium remains intact.
- Thymus
- Superior vena cava
- Pericardium (reflected flaps)
- Right auricle
- Right ventricle
- Diaphragm
- Right margin of heart
- Fatty lobule
- Upper lobe left lung
- Conus arteriosus
- Mediastinal pleura
- Left ventricle
- Anterior interventricular sulcus
- Arcuate margin of heart
- Pericardial cavity