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Introduction The teaching and learning of the three-dimensional (3-D) anatomy of the heart, and especially the coronary arteries and the interpretation of cardiac angiogram radiographs of patients, is challenging to most students.1,2 Studying the anatomy of the heart using specific shapes of the hand during bedside teaching in hospitals and demonstrations of the gross anatomy can be useful.3,4 Harvey appears to have been the first to introduce the concept of using hands to depict the 3-D anatomy of the heart (in the 1950s).5 A 3-D anatomy hand model representing the liver organ has also been developed.4 One hand model,3 which showed the three