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Know Your Heart
Know Your Heart
The heart is a cone-shaped muscular "pump", lying in the center of the chest, with its apex pointing to the left and downward.
De-oxygenated blood
Oxygenated blood
The heart is divided by muscle into left and right sides, each side has two chambers, the atrium (upper) and the ventricle (lower). Valves between the chambers allow a single-direction blood flow. This allows oxygenated blood supply to the whole body via the aorta.