Heart Structure

Help!

When I did O level Anatomy, Physiology and Hygeine at school I was taught
the heart was of 4 parts - the left & right ventricle at the bottom and the
left & right *auricle* at the top.

Now what's happened in the time between then and now because Ray, on S&R
courses, has been taught the top of the heart consists of the left and right
*atrium*.

Frederick Williams...

The jargon has changed but hearts haven't. "Auricle" is a bit old
fashioned.

Anybody know anything about it?

MCC...

An older name for the left and right atria of the heart.
I got confused because they seemed to change the names between my first and
second CABAG (coronary artery bypass and grafts) operations

Old Grizzly...

they wont go near me to give me a second :((

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...

I think atrium is just the same meaning as auricle - see here might help.

Pam the goose...

Good thing I enjoy reading things like that cos what I was looking for was
the last sentence!!

Thanks, FN, I had begun to wonder if my bleeding brain had altered fact.
Glad to hear I'm right in what I was taught:)

An aside - nice to see cwc.net is still around. If it weren't for them we'd
probably still be ignoring puters.

John the R-T...

display the webpage".
The pages haven't been updated for over 7 years and the guest book is
unavailable. Looks like he's gone elsewhere.

Pam the goose...

cwc went elsewhere, too:)
It's amazing you can read any of his site, mine disappeared years ago!
They must have forgotten his server:))

http://www.jdaross.cwc.net/heart1.htm