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  1. Name of the right atrioventricular valve
    Tricuspid Valve
  2. Left atrioventricular valve; so named because of the number of its cusps
    Bicuspid Valve
  3. Blood vessel; accepts oxygenated blood from left ventricle
    Aorta
  4. Number of cusps in each semilunar valve
    3
  5. Left atrioventricular valve; so named because it resembles the hat of a church bishop (i.e. a miter)
    Mitral valve
  6. Inferior tip of heart; points towards left hip
    Apex
  7. Valve at entrance to pulmonary trunk
    Pulmonary Semilunar Valve
  8. Pitted and ridged muscle in ventricles
    Trabeculae Carneae
  9. Heart chamber; receives oxygenated blood from lungs
    Left Atrium
  10. Number of cusps in bicuspid (mitral) valve
    2
  11. Comb-like muscle in right atrium
    Pectinate
  12. Heart chamber; receives deoxygenated blood from body
    Right Atrium
  13. Blood vessels; return oxygenated blood from lungs to left atrium
    Right and Left Pulmonary Veins
  14. Tic shaped muscles in ventricles
    Papillary Muscles
  15. Valve through which oxygenated blood leaving the left ventricle passes
    Aortic Semilunar Valve
  16. Vein that returns deoxygenated blood from heart wall to right atrium
    Coronary Sinus
  17. Remnant of ductus arteriosus
    Ligamentum Arteriosum
  18. Heart chamber with thickest walls; pumps oxygenated blood to body
    Left Ventricle
  19. Heart chamber; pumps deoxygenated blood to lungs
    Right Ventricle
  20. Vein; returns deoxygenated blood from head and neck to right atrium
    Superior Vena Cava
  21. Heart strings
    Chordae Tendineae
  22. Fetal structure; allows blood to by-pass lungs (don't need to know but good to have)
    Ductus Arteriosus
  23. Blood vessel; receives deoxygenated blood from right ventricle
    Pulmonary Trunk
  24. Vein; returns deoxygenated blood from legs and abdomen to right atrium
    Inferior Vena Cava
  25. Pulmonary trunk bifurcates into these
    Right and Left Pulmonary Arteries
  26. First blood vessels to branch off aorta
    Coronary Arteries
  27. Also called septomarginal band (don't need to know but good to have)
    Septomarginal trabecula (moderator band)
  28. Flat top of heart; points toward right shoulder
    Base
  29. Flaps that look like dog ears on surface of heart; increase surface area inside the atria
    Auricles
  30. The heart is located in the _?_ (which is the space between the 2 lungs)
    Mediastinum
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