HTHSCI 1H06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Small Cardiac Vein, Middle Cardiac Vein, Great Cardiac Vein

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HTHSCI 1H06
• Professor: Bruce Wainman

Document Summary

Supply gi tract: celiac trunk, common hepatic, superior and inferior mesenteric, celiac artery, supplies liver, stomach, spleen, duodenum. Superior and inferior mesenteric: superior supplies pancreas, small intestine, part of large intestine. Inferior supplies rest of large colon: common iliac. Abdominal aorta branches (paired arteries: both right and left artery once it comes off the trunk, renal arteries, supply kidneys, gonadal arteries supply gonads. Lumbar arteries, common iliac goes down to lower limbs. Superior vena cava: head, neck, chest, upper limbs, coronary sinus, great cardiac vein, middle cardiac vein, small cardiac vein. Inferior vena cava: abdomen, pelvis, lower limbs. Abdominal and pelvic veins: parallel to arteries. Hepatic portal system: a vein that transports blood from one capillary bed to another, allows blood to be filtered before returning to heart, venous blood from gi organs and spleen go to the liver before ivc.