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pleures (Fig. 192). The part of the cardiac mesentery between 

 the heart and the fore-gut forms the dorsal mesocardium, the part 

 between the heart and the ventral wall, the ventral mesocardium. 

 The anterior end of the coelom which is occupied by the heart 

 becomes the pericardium. The pericardium is situate beneath 

 the primitive pharynx. 



Demarcation into Chambers. — In the third week the heart 

 undergoes three important changes : 



(1) The dorsal and ventral mesocardia disappear and the 

 heart, all but the anterior and posterior extremities, is left free 

 in the anterior end of the coelom. This can best be under- 

 stood by a reference to Fig. 193. The heart is there seen 



somatopleure 



ventral meso-card-Jfy 

 sin. uen, 



sept, transu. 



yolk sac. 



dorsal meso-eard. 

 ^-fore-gut 



.z-lung bud 



sept, transuersum 

 liuer bud. 



Pig. 193.— Lateral view of the Heart and Pericardium to show the Attachments of 

 the Dorsal and Ventral Mesocardia (schematic). 



suspended between the fore-gut and ventral wall. The tubular 

 heart is formed behind by the union of the right and left 

 vitelline veins from the yolk sac and ends in front as the first 

 or mandibular aortic arches. The posterior end of the meso- 

 cardium, both the ventral and dorsal parts, persists — the part 

 which encloses the sinus venosus and this forms the primitive 

 basis of the diaphragm or septum transversum (Fig. 202, p. 244). 



