ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Your heart beats about 100, 000 times in one day and about 35 million times in a year. During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times.

Detailed explanation-2: -The heart is an amazing organ. It pumps oxygen and nutrient-rich blood throughout your body to sustain life. This fist-sized powerhouse beats (expands and contracts) 100, 000 times per day, pumping five or six quarts of blood each minute, or about 2, 000 gallons per day.

Detailed explanation-3: -The heart is the body’s engine room, responsible for pumping life-sustaining blood via a 60, 000-mile-long (97, 000-kilometer-long) network of vessels. The organ works ceaselessly, beating 100, 000 times a day, 40 million times a year-in total clocking up three billion heartbeats over an average lifetime.

Detailed explanation-4: -Heart facts: It is about the size of your fist. It is protected by your ribs and breastbone (sternum). It beats about 100, 000 times a day.

Detailed explanation-5: -1, 000, 000 ÷ 100, 000 = 10. Thus, 1, 000, 000 beats take 10 days.