The heart is one of the most important organs in your body. So what does it do? It’s function is to pump blood to all the other organs. But the heart can not function alone‚ it has other organs and blood vessels helping it. The human heart is a pear shaped and about the size of a human fist. It is made of muscle and there are three different layers. The outer layer is called the epicardium. The middle layer is called the myocardium which is made of muscles that contract. The inner layer is called
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Heart Failure and Incident Late –Life Depression According to Hendrika J. Luijendijka et al. They have written an article discussing about heart failure and depression in elderly people. In the article “Heart Failure and incident late-life Depression.” The aim of this research is to determine if heart failure (HF) increases the risk of developing depression.” They have gathered five thousand and ninety-five participants with majority of elderly individuals. To specify‚ researchers collected patients’
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Nicole Hart HIST 2300- Christopher Trobridge Writing Assignment One October 16‚ 2010 “In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whale ship Essex” In order to understand the ramifications of an event such as the sinking of the Essex one needs too understand the community that produces the crew. Nantucket was an island community much more than the literal sense of word. The islanders of Nantucket saw themselves differently than the rest of the word. They learned the skills of whaling from
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Heart Dissection Sheep have a four-chambered heart‚ as do humans. By studying a sheep heart you can learn about your own heart at the same time. 1. Identify the right and left sides of the heart. Look closely and on one side you will see a diagonal line of blood vessels that divide the heart. The half that includes all of the apex of the heart is the left side. If you feel the heart‚ the left half will feel much firmer and more muscular than the right side. The left side of the heart has to
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States have heart attacks and almost half of them die. Even though heart attacks isn’t the end of a person’s life‚ people can still live an active‚ productive life after a heart attack‚ because people can live healthier lives and people can go about doing things like before. This disease will take you by surprise all of a sudden. It may be surprising that while many women believe breast cancer is most threatening to them‚ it is a fact that they are eight times more likely to die of a heart attack. There
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The Human Heart The Human Heart is one of the most important organs in the entire human body. The heart is a muscular organ that acts like a pump to continuously send blood through the body. The heart beats approximately about seventy-two times per minute of our lives. Without the heart’s pumping action‚ blood can’t circulate within the human body. The heart is enclosed in a double walled sac called the Pericardium. The pericardium has outer and inner coats. The outer coat is tough and thickened
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million Americans suffer a heart attack every year‚ and almost half a million die‚ according to the American Heart Association. A heart attack often is the first symptom of coronary artery disease. The blockage usually is caused by atherosclerosis‚ the build-up of plaque in the artery walls‚ and/or by a blood clot in a coronary artery. A slow buildup of this plaque may almost block one of your coronary arteries. The cause of the heart is not always known. Heart attacks may occur when you are
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Good morning! Today I’m going to talk about artificial heart as one of the most significant invention in the history of humanity. An artificial heart is a device that replaces the heart. Artificial hearts are typically used to bridge the time to heart transplantation‚ or to permanently replace the heart in case heart transplantation is impossible. Since the late nineteenth century‚ scientists have tried to develop a mechanical device that could restore oxygen to the blood and remove
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Dr. Charles Curtis Thomas There is a Spanish proverb that “Every man is a fool in some man’s opinion‚” however‚ Ralph Waldo said‚ “People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character‚” whereby‚ Albert Einstein said‚ “Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. It is said that‚ “Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It’s not hard. Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s
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Staci Watson Mills AP English 6th April 17‚ 2012 Heart of Darkness vs. Apocalypse Now Both the novel "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad and the movie "Apocalypse Now" are about one man’s journey through Africa and Vietnam. A comparison and contrast can be made between the two. Both have the same themes but entirely different settings. Heart of Darkness takes place on the Congo River in the Heart of Africa while Apocalypse Now is set in Vietnam. The stock characters in both have the same
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