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Mar 26, 2016 · In fact, your heart is situated slightly to the left of center in your chest. Figure 1: Anterior view of the heart. A thick layer of muscle tissue and a protective membrane that folds into two layers, called the pericardium or pericardial membranes, surround the heart. The heart itself is a well-organized grouping of hollow spaces.
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Mar 26, 2016 · Your heart is divided into halves because of your two-circuit circulatory system, so you have a left atrium and a left ventricle, as well as a right atrium and a right ventricle. Your heart’s right side pumps blood to your lungs, and its left side pumps blood to the rest of your body. Blood goes into both pathways with each and every pump.
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Mar 26, 2016 · The pumping chambers: The heart’s job is to pump blood to the lungs to get oxygen and to pump the oxygenated blood to the rest of the body. To fulfill these tasks, the heart has a left and a right side, each with one main pumping chamber called a ventricle located in the lower part of it. Sitting above the left and right ventricles are two ...
The heart is made up of four different blood-filled areas, and each of these areas is called a chamber. There are two chambers on each side of the heart. One chamber is on the top and one chamber is on the bottom. The two chambers on top are called the atria (say: AY-tree-uh). The heart has a left atrium and a right atrium.
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The function of the heart. Each day, your heart beats around 100,000 times. This continuously pumps about 5 litres (8 pints) of blood around your body through a network of blood vessels (called arteries and veins) in your circulatory system. This blood delivers oxygen and nutrients to all parts of your body to help your organs and muscles work ...