The human heart is slightly bigger than the size of ones fist. It is situated at a very safe place which is between the cage bones‚ i.e.‚ in the center of the chest. Usually it is slightly on the left side of the chest but in rare cases‚ it can be found on the right side. Heart is responsible for the blood flow to every single part of the body by constant contraction and relaxation of cardiac muscles. This is the reason why we hear rhythmic beats all the time. Heart pumps the pure blood to the different
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The Rental Heart Kirsty Logan is an award-winning writer. She was born in 1984 and is currently living in Glasgow with her Girlfriend. The Rental Heart is a science-fiction short story‚ which takes place in the future. The short story is about a person‚ who‚ throughout his/her life‚ has to replace his/her heart every time he/she finds a new lover. The replaceable hearts are mechanical hearts‚ which apparently function like normal flesh-hearts even though the mechanical hearts literally shatter
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Per: 7th November 22‚ 2011 Heart in a Box "How long can a human heart sit in a cooler of ice—thirsty for vein-borne blood‚ detached from ox y gen and lungs—before it becomes useless to the transplant patient who desperately needs it?" (Ballingall) Studies have shown that for up to 4 hours a transplanted heart can stay strong and healthy in a cooler of ice‚ but past six hours is too long for the heart to be stable‚ and its impossible to predict whether the heart will reject the recipient or not
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Joselyn Bodnar Heart lab dissection 3/2/15 The Human heart has many complicated processes. Dissecting a sheep’s heart can help to provide an active‚ firsthand learning experience that allows to illustrate what has been previously heard and read. The sheep heart and a human heart share the same function and purpose‚ which is to keep the body alive by continually circulating blood around the body. Like a human heart‚ a sheep’s heart contains two atria and two ventricles. These four chambers
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1 The heart is a muscular organ found in all animals with a circulatory system. The heart pumps blood throughout the blood vessels by contractions. Cardiac means “related to the heart”‚ and comes from the Greek. The vertebrate heart is made up of cardiac muscle‚ it’s an involuntary striated muscle tissue found only in this organ‚ and connective tissue. The male’s heart weighs 9-11 ounces‚ and the female’s heart weighs about 11-12 ounces. A person’s blood pressure has major effects on their heart;
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SURFACE VIEW OF HEART Position‚ Shape and Size of the Heart: The human heart is located between the lungs in the thoracic cavity (i.e. it is not situated on the left side of the chest). The heart is a hollow‚ fibro-muscular organ and is somewhat conical in shape. It is about the size of one’s fist‚ measures about 12 cm in length and 9 cm in breadth. Its weight is about 300 g in an adult. The heart is enclosed in pericardium (a double- layered membranous sac). It protects the heart from mechanical
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Heart 1. Blockage of which of the following arteries would lead to ischemia of the apex of the heart? a. Anterior interventricular (descending) b. Left circumflex c. Posterior interventricular (descending) d. Right marginal e. Right coronary 2. If the ductus arteriosus does not spontaneously close off soon after birth (to become the ligamentum arteriosum)‚ it may have to be surgically ligated. When clamping or ligating it‚ what important structure immediately behind it must be identified
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walled tubes forming part if the circulation system by which blood is conveyed from the heart to all the parts of the body 4. Bundle of His Collection of heart muscles specialized for electrical conduction 5. Capillaries Any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules Heart vocabulary: Inferior vena cava A large vein carrying deoxygenated blood into the heart from the lower body Left atrium Receives oxygenated blood from the pulmonary veins
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INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS and TECHNOLOGY (SIBTECH) In consortium with RIZAL TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (RTU) ADVANCED CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT REACTION PAPER THE HEART OF A TEACHER As I leaned on my headboard‚ I found myself heading towards the enjoyment of reading this article about how the real teacher teaches with his/her heart in the classroom. And so I started reflecting on what kind of a teacher I am. Teaching at first has not come in my wildest dream but since the family whom I came
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lion heart Amanda Chong You came out of the sea‚ skin dappled scales of sunlight; Riding crests‚ waves of fish in your fists. Washed up‚ your gills snapped shut. Water whipped the first breath of your lungs‚ Your lips’ bud teased by morning mists. You conquered the shore‚ its ivory coast. Your legs still rocked with the memory of waves. Sinews of sand ran across your back- Rising runes of your oceanic origins. Your heart thumped- an animal skin drum heralding the coming of a prince. In the jungle
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