Detailed dissection of heart
Anterior surface of heart, epicardium intact
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Detailed dissection of heart
Anterior surface of heart, epicardium intact
This specimen, from a young woman, displays an abundance of fat in the epicardium.
- Right auricle
- Right atrium
- Fat covering coronary sulcus
- Right ventricle
- Right margin
- Notch at apex of heart
- Superior vena cava
- Aorta
- Pulmonary trunk
- Left auricle
- Conus arteriosus
- Anterior interventricular branch of left coronary artery (covered by fat)
- Left ventricle
- Apex of heart