Hand-finger model of the human heart - a useful educational device for understanding basic position of the cardiac chambers

Teaching heart anatomy for the medical students is a difficult task even for the most experienced professors. A practical approachof teaching complicated structure of the cardiac chambers and their space relations is presented here. It is based on a simple andeasily understandable hand-finger model of the human heart showing in once the position of the cardiac chambers and therespective heart valves.

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