Concept Check

Cards (2)

  • Describe the right coronary artery (RCA).
    The right coronary artery branches off the ascending aorta. It passes around the right side of the heart in the coronary sulcus, giving branches to the right atrium and right ventricle, including the atrioventricular branches, the sinoatrial nodal branch, the right marginal artery, the atrioventricular nodal branch, and the posterior interventricular branch.
  • The left coronary artery supplies what parts of the heart with blood?
    The left coronary artery supplies blood to
    • most of the left ventricle
    • some of the right ventricle
    • most of the left atrium
    • anterior two thirds of the interventricular septum