The heart is a myogenic muscular organ found in all animals with a circulatory system (including all vertebrates ), which pumps blood throughout the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions. The term cardiac (as in cardiology ) means related to the heart and comes from the Greek καρδιά, kardia , for heart . The vertebrate heart is principally composed of cardiac muscle and connective tissue . Cardiac muscle is an involuntary striated muscle tissue found only in this organ and responsible for the ability of the heart to pump blood. The average human heart , beating at 72 beats per minute, will beat approximately 2.5 billion times during an average 66 year lifespan. It weighs approximately 250 to 300g in females and 300 to 350g in males. In invertebrates that possess a circulatory system, the heart is typically a tube or small sac and pumps fluid that contains water and nutrients such as proteins , fats , and sugars . In insects , the heart is often called the dorsal tube and insect blood is almost always not oxygenated since they usually respirate (breathe) directly from their body surfaces (internal and external) to air. However, the hearts of some other arthropods (including spiders and crustaceans such as crabs and shrimp ) and some other animals pump hemolymph , which contains the copper -based protein hemocyanin as an oxygen transporter similar to the iron -based hemoglobin in red blood cells found in vertebrates .
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If heart beat is 18 per min for an 55 year old man what will happen how to increase the heart beat of 55 year old man
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hi..i start diabetic type 1 when i was 19yrs old now I m 40 and mother of three..so about last year i was told that i have osteoarthristis...then three month later i was told that i have fibromyalgia ....then last week i got heart muscular . waiting for letter about heart specailist. at the moment i still got vibration my foot , my leg.and my...
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Hi I have been taking Loette for 10 months. The previous last strip I started taking after 14 days lapsed (when it should be 7 days after the last pill ). After the 11th day, spotting started, on the 15th & 16th spotting, 20th spotting, 22nd spotting (no more taking loette), 23rd day, menstruation started for the rest 16 days (now). NOt very...
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What does it mean when your heart is racing really fast that you have to go to the hospital? My granpa has a heart condotion for years but i just found out he has been in and out of the hospital for the past couple of days becasue his heart is racing really fast and hes hooked to all these machines. I Just wondering what is means? I dont want to...
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CAN YOU DIE OF A BROKEN HEART IF SO I THINK I JUST DID :(!!!!!!!! PLEZ ANSWER
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when u get an echocardiogram and the tech doesn't say anything is that a good sign.? I had a chest xray done last week and I was told that my heart was enlarged. Today I had an echocardigram done. The tech didn t say anything and he scheduled my doctors appt for 10 days away. Is that a good sign or does it normally take that much time to get the...
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I am 36 with with a low heart rat of 55-60 is that ok? help
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What is a hole in your heart ?
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I m concerned. What would make the heart and veins/arteries in the neck and chest feel like they are fluttering. When I take my paulse It feels as though the heart is giving a THUMP feeling ever so often.. like ever 4 beats. It will beat for 4 and then make a thumping feel. It feels that way both in my neck veign and my heart. I have been all...
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