{"id":1683,"date":"2017-07-14T08:06:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T15:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2017-07-14T08:06:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T15:06:42","slug":"cat-heart-in-situ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/2017\/07\/14\/cat-heart-in-situ\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat Heart &#8211; In Situ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An &#8220;in situ&#8221; view is one that leaves the structure in it&#8217;s original place. \u00a0In the view below, the heart of the cat has been cut to reveal the left and right <strong>ventricle<\/strong>. \u00a0Note that the left ventricle has a much thicker muscular wall. \u00a0This is because it is responsible for pushing blood out the <strong>aorta<\/strong> which will deliver oxygenated blood to the rest of the body. \u00a0The left ventricle only needs to push blood to the lungs and back through the <strong>pulmonary artery<\/strong>, this route is known as the pulmonary circuit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/heart-in-situ-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1685\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/heart-in-situ-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/heart-in-situ-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/heart-in-situ-1-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/heart-in-situ-1-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/heart-in-situ-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An &#8220;in situ&#8221; view is one that leaves the structure in it&#8217;s original place. \u00a0In the view below, the heart of the cat has been cut to reveal the left and right ventricle. \u00a0Note that the left ventricle has a much thicker muscular wall. \u00a0This is because it is responsible for pushing blood out the aorta which will deliver oxygenated blood to the rest of the body. \u00a0The left ventricle only needs to push blood to the lungs and back through the pulmonary artery, this route is known as the pulmonary circuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21,60,397,243,396,51,95,76],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anatomical","tag-aorta","tag-cat","tag-cut","tag-dissect","tag-dissected","tag-heart","tag-pulmonary","tag-ventricle","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1686,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/1686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}