Heart Valve Diagram

I've had some people ask me about the valve and how valves work and I've never been able to explain it in a way that those people were able to envision it. I found the picture below on a this site. It's a pretty nice diagram. You can see the arotic valve and how the three leaflets are arranged.



Edit: I found another picture on the site that helps the visualization even more. This is more of a straight-ahead look that should be more familiar. To the right, you can see how the aortic valve is positioned.


Edit #2: The last image didn't copy over so well. It's hard to read the text on the image, but the aortic valve is the one kind of pointing south-east just above the second set of characters that are aligned vertically. Maybe that helps

--Paul