Heart
Cor
Pumps blood: the right side to the lungs, the left side to the body.
About the heart of the horse
Heart is a heart of the chest (thorax), one on each side of the body. Its name in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria is Cor. You can turn it above, see it in place in the chest of the horse, and open it inside the whole animal in Vetomica.
Where it runs from and to
What this structure is anchored to at each end, and what that lets it do.
- Origin
- Middle mediastinum, over the third to sixth ribs, its apex toward the sternum.
- Action
- Pumps blood: the right side to the lungs, the left side to the body.
- Nerve
- Vagus nerve slows it; the sympathetic cardiac nerves quicken it.
Written for Vetomica in its own words from the standard reference anatomy of the horse; the books it was checked against are listed below.
Terminology
- English
- Heart
- Latin (NAV)
- Cor
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
The heart in other animals
The same structure in the other animals in the Library, to compare.
Questions about the heart
- What is the Latin name of the heart?
- In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the heart is called Cor.
- Where is the heart of the horse?
- Heart is a heart of the chest (thorax), one on each side of the body.
- What nerve supplies the heart?
- Vagus nerve slows it; the sympathetic cardiac nerves quicken it.
See the heart inside the whole horse.
Vetomica opens on this structure with every layer of the horse around it: peel back the skin and the muscles, cut a section through it, X-ray it, and practise naming it until you stop getting it wrong.
Free for 7 days, no card. After that the skeletons stay free.
