Anatomy

I am a 40 year old (with degrees in Computer Engineering) trying to learn Anatomy. I am not a doctor or specialist in anatomy. I provide the videos I am watching to learn for others.

Notes

Heart is a pump mostly muscle that has two pumps, one for deoxygenated blood (darker red, blue for sake of diagram) to the right side pump (Right Atrium -> Tricuspid Valve -> Right Ventricle -> Pulmonary Semilunar Valve -> Pulmonary Artery -> Lungs), and one for oxygenated left side pump (Lungs -> Pulmonary Vein -> Oxygenated Blood -> Left Atrium -> Mitral (Bicuspid) Valve -> Left Ventricle (thicker heart muscle, muscle required for whole body unlike right ventricle that only has to pump to lungs) -> Aortic Semilunar Valve -> Heart and Body)

Pulmonary – Lungs

Deoxygenated Blood -> Superior Vena Cava -> Right Atrium -> Tricuspid Valve -> Right Ventricle -> Pulmonary Artery -> Lungs

DeoxyB -> SVC -> RA -> TcV -> RV -> PA -> Lungs

Artery – takes blood away from heart

Vein – takes blood to the heart

Pulmonary Arteries – takes deoxygenated blood to the lungs, from the heart branch left and right to go to left and right lung respectively.

Lungs -> Oxygenated Blood -> Pulmonary Veins -> Left Atrium -> Mitral (Bicuspid) Valve -> Left Ventricle -> Aortic Semilunar Valve -> Aorta

Lungs -> OxyB -> PV -> LA -> MBcV -> LV -> ASlV -> Aorta

Coronary – Crown

Aorta – the biggest blood vessel in our body, all blood leaving the heart except for the coronary arteries)

Aortic Arch – three arteries at top that take blood to upper body and brain

Descending Aorta – Artery sending Oxygenated blood to all of the lower body below the heart

Coronary Arteries – break off from the Aorta and surrounds the heart on right and left side like a crown (coronary means crown), supply blood to the heart

Heart -> Oxygenated Blood -> Aortic Semilunar Valve -> Aortic Arch -> Upper Body and Brain

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I have a Computer Engineering Masters and am 40 years old. I am trying to learn anatomy. The process is useful as I am also trying to improve my learning/teaching. Teaching factors into more surface area and time, reminds of unknowns that drives greater learning.

Anatomy has many different terms, terms that I might have heard once (or a small amount of times) and many that I have never heard. Remembering all the terms is difficult. Problems Areas are usually a place that is useful for Potential Gains made in learning.

Prefixes and Suffixes – Learning the prefixes and suffixes can increase ability to logically group and pattern match in the brain. More comprehension of the prefixes and suffixes can lead to a greater feeling of familarity and thus less feeling of lost. Less feeling of lost leads to more potential for staying at learning and learning more.

Positioning – Anatomy terms have a lot of confusing terminology around positioning, or at least confusing to someone that hasn’t heard them before. Dorsal, Ventral, Superior, Inferior etc. that known have the ability to give ability to pattern match to close by structures.

I personally think learning Prefixes, Suffixes, Positioning, and Pronunciation could lead to a lot of gains made that might not otherwise be made.

Further from my own experiences mnemonics and acronyms factor into both encoding and decoding of long-term memory, more repetitions and surface area that has the potential to lead to memorable unique that is not forgotten.

The more gains I make the easier the reading becomes, like activation energy to get over the initial complexity. Spaced Repetition seems to help quite a bit as well as more surface area combined with greater comprehension leads to more ability to actually comprehend reading.