DEVELOPMENT OF HEART

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LEARNING OUTCOMES
Development of heart

INTRODUCTION
Heart is mesodermal in origin

Formed from splanchnopleuric mesoderm lying

immediately cranial to prochordal plate Mesoderm is the constitutent of the cardiogenic area The developing heart is closely related to pericardial cavity (derived from part of intra-embryonic coelom)

DEVELOPMENT OF HEART
Heart is first seen as 2 tubes Right and left endothelial tubes Will fuse with each other Then forming dilatations named: 1) Bulbus cordis 2) Ventricle ( primitive ) 3) Atrium ( primitive ) 4) Sinus venosus

Ventricle and atrium connected by atrio-ventricular

canal Sinus venosus has extension = left and right horns

 Bulbus cordis arterial end

Sinus venosus venous end, which receives

1) Vitelline vein from yolk sac 2) Umbilical vein from placenta

3) Common cardinal vein from body wall

RIGHT ATRIUM
Derived from right-half of primitive atrium

Sinus venosus absorbed into right atrium

Right half of atrio-ventricular canal absorbed into

right atrium

LEFT ATRIUM
Derived from left half of primitive atrial chamber

Absorbed proximal parts of pulmonary veins

Left half of atrio-ventricular canal

VENTRICLES
3 divison of bulbus cordis ( proximal, middle, distal )

Spiral septum appears within truncus arteriosus and

subdivides into ascending aorta and pulmonary trunk Formed by union of right superior and left inferior truncus swellings

 Conus forms the outflow tracts of both right and left

ventricles Proximal 1/3 of bulbus cordis merges with cavity of primitive ventricle Forms the right ventricle

REFERENCE
I.B Singh, Human Embryology 8th Edition, 2007

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