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The heart is a muscular organ situated in the mediastinum.It consists of four chambers, four valves, two main arteries (the coronary arteries), and the conduction system. The left and right sides of the heart have different functions: the right side receives de-oxygenated blood through the superior and inferior venae cavae and pumps blood to the lungs through the pulmonary artery, and the left ...
Athletic heart syndrome; Atrium (heart) Blood; Cavoatrial junction; Fourth heart sound; Heart; Human body; Inferior vena cava; Lutembacher's syndrome; Mitral valve; Mitral valve repair; Pressure–volume diagram; Pulmonary artery; Pulmonary regurgitation; Pulmonary valve; Pulmonary vein; Ross procedure; Third heart sound; Tissue engineering of ...
Real-time MRI of the human heart The human heart is in the middle of the thorax, with its apex pointing to the left. [15] The human heart is situated in the mediastinum, at the level of thoracic vertebrae T5–T8. A double-membraned sac called the pericardium surrounds the heart and attaches to the mediastinum. [16]
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The Visible Human Project is an effort to create a detailed data set of cross-sectional photographs of the human body, in order to facilitate anatomy visualization applications. It is used as a tool for the progression of medical findings, in which these findings link anatomy to its audiences. [ 1 ]
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SVG illustration of the human heart, created by Wapcaplet in Sodipodi. Slightly modified for correct rendering by Yaddah (no changes to content). Cropped version withour white space available at File:Diagram of the human heart (cropped).svg Uploaded on 24 Dec 2003. Diagram of the human heart: Source: Own work: Author: Wapcaplet, Yaddah: Other ...