[KIN110] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (154 pages long)

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Outermost layer is the super cial brous pericardium, helps to protect the heart and the cavity. Prevents over lling of the heart with blood, gives a limit of how much blood can get into the heart important function. Without it there would be stretching of the tissue and then dysfunction. Serous uid and visceral pericardium allow for the heart to work in a relatively friction free environment. Beneath that is a deep two-layer serious pericardium: parietal and visceral layers, visceral layer is directly on top of the heart muscle -serous uid separates them. Muscle layer forming the bulk of the mass of the heart, comprised of cardiac muscle cells, striated. Specialized structures within the cardiomyocytes allow for the conduction of action potentials. Then endocardium endothelial layer of the inner myocardial surface; continuous vessels leaving and entering the heart. Vessels returning blood to the heart include the superior and inferior venae cavae; left and right pulmonary veins.

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