blood vessels HEART •SIZE •LOCATION •ORIENTATION Surfaces of the hear Locatio Coverings of the Heart Pericardi um Muscular layers of the heart Epicardium • Outside layer • This layer is the visceral pericardium • Connective tissue layer Myocardium •Middle layer •Mostly cardiac muscle •twisted and whorled into ringlike arrangements •It is the layer that actually contracts. reinforced internally by a dense, fibrous connective tissue network called the “Skeleton of the HEART” Chambers and valves blood flow/ circulation Heart sounds hemodynami cs blood vessels