1. Sheep Heart Homework for Dissection

2. Sheep Heart Dissection Homework over Spring Break
Use the link to read and write steps for the sheep heart dissection.
What feature helps to distinguish the front of the heart from the back?
The chart below is the features and terms you’ll need to define and the bolded terms are ones that need to be identified on the heart.
Know where the arteries supply the blood and where veins bring it from
4. During the dissection you will have to describe blood flow through the heart to the pulmonary circulation and the systematic circulation. You will need to know where arteries take the blood supply too and where veins bring the blood back from.
Auricle
Pulmonary trunk (artery)
aorta
Pulmonary vein
Superior vena cava
Inferior vena cava
brachiocephalic
Left common carotid
Left subclavian
chordae tendinae or heart strings
Right atrium
Left atrium
Right ventricle
Left ventricle
Tricuspid valve
Pulmonary valve
Aortic valve
Mitral valve
Septum
Papillary muscles
Coronary sinus