Human Anatomy: The Heart
by Kaia Cross, Taylor Ashcraft, Siddha Sannigrahi
Is Laughter Really The Best Medicine?
Well the answer is yes! When you laugh your heart beats 20% faster!
How Strong Is the Heart?
Your heart is almost entirely made out of muscle, and if harnessed properly, it could lift over 3000 pounds!
Does Heart Break Lead to Heart Failure?
The myth of a broken heart may not be off base, since a breakup with a loved one or news of a death can lead to heightened risk of heart attack. Such trauma can also trigger the release of stress hormones into the blood that temporarily stun the heart. This results in the symptoms of a heart attack, chest pain and shortness of breath.
What Does The Heart Look Like?
What Is The Heart?
How Does the Heart Work Exactly?
The heart is a chambered muscular organ that pumps blood throughout the body, located towards the left center of the chest. The heart pumps blood that is received from the veins into the arteries, all the arteries and take the blood throughout the body giving nutrients to the other body systems. The heart is a very vital organ and if removed would cause a dramatic down spiral is the body’s wellbeing. If cut, then no blood would be pumped throughout the body, the entire body would suffer none of the other organs\systems would get any nutrients.
What is the Circulatory System?
What Happens If the Heart is Gone?
What are the Veins
Definition: Any of the tubes forming part of the blood circulation system of the body, carrying mainly oxygen-depleted blood toward the heart.(in general and figurative use) A blood vessel.
What Are Capillaries?
Definition: Any of the branching blood vesells that form and that work between arterioles and venules. A tube with an internal diameter of hair-like thinness
What Are the Arteries?
Definition: type of blood vessel: a blood vessel that is part of the system carrying blood under pressure from the heart to the rest of the body
If I Can't Get Rid Of the Heart, What Do I Get Rid of?
How Does the Heart Affect Other Body Systems?
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