ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Your heart is located between your lungs in the middle of your chest, behind and slightly to the left of your breastbone (sternum).

Detailed explanation-2: -Your heart is about the size of a clenched fist, and weighs between 300 and 450 g. It lies in the middle of your chest, behind and slightly to the left of your breastbone.

Detailed explanation-3: -Your heart is slightly on the left side of your body. It sits between your right and left lungs. The left lung is slightly smaller to make room for the heart in your left chest.

Detailed explanation-4: -This is because the heart’s bottom-left chamber (the ‘left ventricle’) is responsible for pumping oxygenated blood around the whole body, so it needs to be stronger and larger than the right ventricle, which only pumps blood to the lungs. It’s this left ventricle that you can feel beating in your chest.

Detailed explanation-5: -People have a common belief that the heart is located on the left side of the chest because the narrow end of the roughly triangular heart is pointed to the left side and during its working, the contraction of the heart is more powerful on the left side which can be felt.