Cardiac physiology ventricles, pushing open the tricuspid and mitral valves. As pressure drops within the ventricles, blood flows from the major veins into the relaxed atria and from there into the ventricles. Both chambers are in diastole, the atrioventricular valves are open, and the semilunar valves remain closed. The cardiac cycle is complete. One of the simplest methods of assessing the heart's condition is to listen to it using a stethoscope. In a healthy heart, there are only two audible heart sounds, called S1 and S2. The first heart sound S1, is the sound created by the closing of the atrioventricular valves
Map of the Human Heart Map of the Human Heart Map of the Human Heart (also called Carte du Tendre and La Carte du Tendre ) is a 1993 film by New Zealand director Vincent Ward. The script for "Map of the Human Heart" was written by Australian author Louis Nowra, using a 10-page treatment Ward had written a year earlier as his guide. "Map of the Human Heart", set mostly before and during the Second World War, centres on the life of Avik, a Canadian Inuit boy. The film stars Robert Joamie and Jason Scott Lee as the youth and adult Avik. His love,