The CCIM Institute, headquartered in Chicago and an affiliate of the National Association of REALTORSÂ®, awards the CCIM designation to individuals who complete a process based both on commercial and investment real estate theory and practice. Weâll review this process in a moment.
The endocardium is the most inner layer of the heart. It forms the inner layer of all four heart chambers and is directly connected to all the inner cardiac appendages, such as the bicuspid valve, the tricuspid valve, the pulmonary valve, the aortic valve, the chordae tendineae and the papillary muscles.
The heart is divided into four chambers that are connected by heart valves. The lower two chambers of the heart are called ventricles. They are separated by a septum into the left ventricle and the right ventricle. The upper two heart chambers are called atria. Atria receive blood returning to the heart from the body and ventricles pump blood from the heart to the body. Due to the force needed to pump blood to the body, ventricles have thicker walls than do atria. The ventricles of the heart function to pump blood to the entire body.